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...still invisible at 10:23? Why do all the people around me insist on going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into New Delhi recently, I was instantly lost inside a shouting commotion-traffic jams on the airport road at 2:15 on a Sunday morning!-and wondered how anything ever got done. INCONVENIENCE REGRETTED, read the age-old maxims...
...relatively small number of new cloned pets would have little effect on the stray population. What's more, they argue, cloning has scientific applications. Clones could provide a line of identical animals for lab research, for instance, allowing scientists to conduct experiments without the genetic variability that can confound results...
Uruzgan is certainly a place that could confound an army. The province was a Taliban hotbed that sent hundreds of young men to fight for the regime. Mohammed Younis, the warlord in charge of the military compound raided by the U.S., was friendly with senior Taliban leaders; his son had close ties to Taliban Health Minister Mohammed Abbas Akhund, one of the movement's founders. A Kandahar official told TIME that Akhund and a few other Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding in the mountains outside Uruzgan. While it is possible that U.S. troops simply went to the wrong...
...exceeded all expectations. The second half against Yale was really the only half they’ve been outplayed in an Ivy game. The Crimson has yet to find a No. 2 scorer, but they seem to find a different one every night. They should continue to confound opposing offenses—assuming Gellert stays out of foul trouble, something that killed Harvard against Yale—and they’re holding their own on the boards...
...pressure. "IWC meetings have always been contentious, but it's getting worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International. "The pro-whaling lobby is bringing in countries with no history with the IWC, or even with whaling. Their job appears to be to filibuster, confound and confuse - to influence voters by the sheer number of words spoken." And, she might have added, sheer number of people present. Japan had a team of 50 - twice that of the next largest, those of the U.S. and Britain. Japan's tactics didn't work this year. For the world...