Word: unravelled
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...that uneasy balance could unravel if the U.S. doesn't restore order. State Department and CIA officials fear the presence of Iran's hard-line al-Quds security forces, which they believe are working with the Lebanese terrorists of Hizballah and could be tempted to back the insurgency. Iraq's Gulf neighbors distrust Iran and would like to see Sunnis retain influence in Baghdad. With Iraq's fate so uncertain, foreign meddling may have only just begun. --By Massimo Calabresi and Adam Zagorin. With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Nahid Siamdoust/Tehran
...long it can take even an experienced gamer to get through the adventure PC game A Quiet Weekend in Capri ($29.99). The game is composed of more than 4,500 pictures that put players through their paces in the southern Italian retreat of Capri as they try to unravel a mystery with the help of strange tools invented by an eccentric island scientist. You can play Capri as a game, but you can also use it for virtual sightseeing. --By Jennifer...
...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...