Word: unravelled
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...case going exactly the way it should for a government that may have overplayed its hand in the zeal to show it was combatting terrorism? It's unclear whether anyone could have foreseen the twists and turns, such as Moussaoui becoming his own counsel, that began to unravel the government's case. But the case now is pivotal for another reason: it has become a showdown between the basic right of criminal defendants to prove their innocence and national-security concerns that can affect the lives of many others. Here's how this supposedly open-and-shut case turned into...
...short version of a particular gene involved in the production of a key brain chemical are more than twice as likely to get depressed in the aftermath of a stressful event than those with the long, more depression-protective version. While the exact causes of depression remain difficult to unravel, this finding is further evidence that the disease is best explained not by genes or circumstances alone but by the interaction...
...clear that Bush now takes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seriously too. His performance was the primary reason that almost all the Arab, Israeli and Palestinian participants left last week's meetings expressing cautious optimism. But there are countless ways the process could unravel. If Abbas fails to rein in the militants, Sharon could be forced to respond aggressively and expose Bush to charges from hard-liners at home that he's jeopardizing Israel's security in a misguided quest to be a peace broker. Just two days after Aqaba, Hamas, one of the most militant terrorist groups operating...
...season started to unravel during the Crimson’s early-October west coast swing with 4-1 and 2-0 losses to the University of San Francisco and then-No.25 Santa Clara, respectively...
...native sons - 20 to 24- year-old residents of the desperately poor neighborhood of Sidi Moumen in eastern Casablanca, one of many shanty towns that ring Moroccan cities. Testimony of one terrorist captured during the attack, and two others arrested in the following days, has allowed police to quickly unravel the plot and characters. Officials say most of the bombers were undereducated, unemployed and without hope of escaping Sidi Moumen's dilapidated, crowded, refuse-strewn streets - oases of despair where joblessness exceeds the estimated national rate of 20% and illiteracy runs over 50%. Such conditions are easily exploited by radical...