Word: unravelled
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Leung's double life began to unravel after Smith retired. In the process of re-evaluating her, agents began to suspect she was a double agent. After a year of surveilling her movements and monitoring her phone calls, faxes and e-mails, they confronted Leung last December. She admitted to her relationship with Smith and produced classified documents from her safe. These included memos on Chinese fugitives and informants, directories of FBI personnel and files from the espionage case of Peter Lee, a defense-contractor employee who pleaded guilty in 1997 to giving secret radar technology to China...
...archaeology of liberation began to yield the secrets of the regime. U.S. soldiers moved through the city streets and tunnels, searching for clues that would unravel the mysteries of Saddam's weapons program. Soldiers explored the Old Palace, imagining what it would be like to take a shower in the gold-and-marble bathrooms. It turns out that Saddam favored Colgate toothpaste and French cuffs; Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz read both Henry Kissinger and Danielle Steel. There were skinny lions, cheetahs and bears in pens on the grounds of one palace, which had 64 bathrooms. The Los Angeles Times...
...scientists race to unravel the mysteries of SARS, one issue high on their agenda will be the likelihood that the new virus is a cross-species transmission in which the virus has mutated from its animal carrier so that it can infect humans, who have no immunity from the alien invader. The most obvious examples of this are HIV and influenza, and the latter disease has disturbing parallels with SARS. The flu virus lives usually in the stomachs of waterfowl, and the two are co-adapted?the birds don't get sick. It is widely believed among virologists, however, that...
...dead - in 14 countries, including 51 suspected cases in the U.S. There was hopeful news as investigators announced that they had identified a new virus, part of the coronavirus family (linked to the common cold), as the likely cause of the disease. But some of that progress could unravel, thanks to a decision by Hong Kong officials to green light last weekend's annual rugby tournament featuring teams from 24 countries. With more than 400 cases of SARS, Hong Kong is second only to China as a hotbed of the disease. Some medical officials had called for canceling the rugby...
...months after the Aug. 31 attack, it seemed likely that no one would unravel the mystery of why these teachers were targeted on a mountain road leading to the giant Grasberg mine, which is run by P.T. Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold. The military blamed the attack on the Free Papua Movement, a ragtag group of Papua rebels fighting a desultory war to free the province from Indonesian rule, but produced scant evidence to back the claim. Meanwhile, relatives of the slain teachers have grown increasingly frustrated by the inability of local...