Word: unraveler
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...Turks anxious to climb the ranks, negotiate a new equilibrium within its Pan-Blue alliance and reverse a plunge in assets that forced the party, once the world's richest, to miss payroll for five days earlier this month. Many expect the KMT, facing so many loose ends, to unravel. "We're seeing it decline into something pitiful," says Byron Weng, a political scientist at National Chi Nan University in central Taiwan, "and that will leave the DPP in power for at least another decade...
...among snow gums covered in creamy blossoms. Plenty of ground cover makes this perfect devil country, home to a daily smorgasbord of wallabies and other treats. That?s why Mooney, scientific officer Billie Lazenby and conservation officer Andry Sculthorpe are here, hoping to catch enough devils to help them unravel the cancer-like disease that?s believed to have halved the devil population and is still spreading...
...alien variety show. Sometimes the five Boohbahs happily jump and bend to doinky keyboard beats, their bellies jiggling wildly, their wide, alert eyes inviting kids to move along with them. Other times there are funny, mellow sketches about jump ropes that aren't long enough and sweaters that unravel, performed by live actors called the Storypeople. Toward the end of the show, real little kids are shown doing Boohbah exercises in an endearingly wobbly way. Everything happens in perfect, idealized, light-filled meadows and beaches. Like Teletubbies, the show was a hit when it first aired in Britain last April...
...game—and maybe even the season for this Harvard hockey team—began to unravel. The Crimson had carried play against Union for the first two periods and into the third, but fell behind 2-0 at that moment, when Olivier Bouchard knocked a rebound past Dov Grumet-Morris...
...Administration chalked up a major foreign-policy victory when the President announced that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had agreed to dismantle his secret--and surprisingly advanced--unconventional-weapons program in exchange for improved relations with the West. Intelligence officials say they expect Libya's cooperation will help them further unravel the shadowy world of illicit-weapons supply lines--which is partly why they are disclosing little information on which countries have aided Libya's program. The deal provides "huge intelligence ... opportunities," said a senior U.S. intelligence official. "We'll be pursuing those opportunities...