Later measurements of individual galaxies confirmed this puzzling result.

Recently, I have turned up some rather puzzling indications. ..

A peaceful resolution of the Cyprus problem, which has seemed to be elusive, continues to be our great desire.

Zeno's mind bending riddles have inspired mathematicians and philosophers to better understand the nature of infinity.

It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.

Loans often require bribes, and the banks procedures are bewildering to the unlettered.

But my point is perhaps that elusive space is what writers and artists need most.

The latter point, however, is where the current puzzles reside for psychiatric diagnosis as public policy.

To try to compensate for these perturbed weather patterns, Chinese officialdom has launched an unprecedented array of costly projects.

There is also the vexing question of how much debt is too much for the modern US.

lead to wonderful and humbling answers and propel us toward even more perplexing questions.

Research at the IMF, of all places, as well as by independent scholars documents a number of puzzles and paradoxes.

Nor does the closed door succession process at the Bank, where the US continued its sixty year lock on the Presidency, justify continuing European monopolization of the Fund job.

One way to maintain a commitment to openness when addressing the vexing question of national borders is to recognize that cosmopolitanism is a two way street.

He will need all his skills to address the bewildering range of global tasks that he has taken on since being shoehorned out of office by his dour successor, Gordon Brown.

From the beginning, the inner world of those entrusted to make recommendations was marked by personal and principled discord over how to interpret Alfred Nobel s cryptic will and to whom prizes should be awarded.

At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids got built this way.

One puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.

In order to understand that epoch, we have to know and carefully judge often ambiguous and overwhelming circumstances, never simplifying a multilayered daily reality for the sake of current political goals.

Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand in glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling counter attack led by his organization Transparency International.

What were called teaser rates allowed even lower payments for the first few years they were teasers, because they played off the fact that many borrowers were not financially sophisticated, and didn t really understand what they were getting into.

As long as we rely on technical fixes to plug moral gaps and governments rush in with rescue packages that enable the merry go round to start up again, we are bound to keep lurching from frenzy to frenzy, punctuated by intervals of collapse.

But if its first occupant is not a household name, the presidency will be doomed as just another of the European Union s confusing plethora of worthy senior positions that are neither valued nor understood outside Brussels.

Whatever the near future holds the multitude of plans now being discussed to deal with this global crisis need to be judged with attention to the elusive and inexplicable effects they might have on confidence.

As the Cambridge University legal anthropologist James Suzman observed in his 2003 overview Kalahari conundrums relocation, resistance and international support in the Central Kalahari Botswana Before Farming 2002 3 4 (12) With easy water Old Xade's population grew rapidly.

Indeed, Western policy makers strong focus on persuading the Chinese authorities to permit greater appreciation of their currency is puzzling when one considers that Germany s current account surplus, as a share of GDP, is now much larger than China s.