Rather, we should question whether, in a world in which 25,000 impoverished children die unnecessarily every day, another concert hall is what the world needs.

Yet we are left to ask when will the time for major political change come?

We must briefly ask ourselves, as we have done in Peru, whether we have much to celebrate.

Yet, given the sheer scale of military spending today, one can wonder if it is rational.

But we have to ask Is it possible that our universe is just a plume off of some greater history?

Given the facts on the ground created by Israel, there are justified doubts about whether a two state solution is feasible at all.

We in Turkey have been tackling the question of whether Islam can coexist with Western democracy for more than 150 years.

If that is the future we want, we should stride toward it with full awareness and a sense of purpose, not meander carelessly until we fall into a hole, look up, and wonder how we got there.

Now, when we already have all the wealth we need, we are right to wonder whether the costs of capitalism are worth incurring.

The question is whether change will be forced upon us by a crisis or result from careful, democratic deliberation and debate.

Whether Hatoyama and his colleagues have the wherewithal to achieve these aims remains an open question.

It is, after all, fair to question whether donor countries will stick to these commitments and, indeed, whether conditions in partner countries will permit them to.

Thus, to test or not to test is not the first question that needs to be answered.

It remains to be seen whether today s leaders will do the same.

We really do need to ask whether Obama is trying to play a China card to shift the electoral scales in his favor.

It remains to be seen whether the two events will be capable of swinging world opinion in China s favor and keeping it there.

And governments will determine whether we should prepare for bitter competition or a true team effort.

But no amount of science can tell us whether or not to kill whales.

When our children ask us to take them to the circus, we should find out if the circus uses wild animals.

It remains to be seen whether the new French president will be able to embark on a more promising course.

Observers could be forgiven for thinking that they are speaking about two entirely different conflicts.

So we really don't know whether we should tell central bankers to brush up on their Greenspanese.

It is only reasonable, therefore, for us to ask ourselves whether the report is more, or less, ambitious than those common denominators identified in the debates on reform held so far.

But it remains to be seen if the lessons have been fully internalized, and whether we will have a kinder, gentler IMF in lieu of a rigid, doctrinaire one.

One of them might be, you know, when we see this funny stripy thing is that a tiger just about to jump out and kill us?

Genocide is a socially meaningful way to describe a species of annihilation it is the legal category that we must question.

We wonder why.

Savulescu proposes that instead of trying to detect whether an athlete has taken drugs, we should focus on measurable indications of whether an athlete is risking his or her health.

We ll have to wait and see, as everyone is saying, if Obama can walk the talk.

But, if the past is any guide to the future, we should be aware of the limits of regulation.

There is no question about the necessity for the turnaround. However, with hindsight, one might ask whether an earlier loosening by the PBC would have been wiser.

Whatever we must do, we should do before that.

The real question about industrial policy is not whether it should be practiced, but how. Here are three important principles to keep in mind.

It remains to be seen whether the outcome will be decided on the basis of unemployment or state debt.

But, if politicians are to become less anxious about jobs, perhaps we need to start discussing whether jobless recoveries are here to stay, and whether the US safety net, devised for a different era, needs to be modified.

So the question now is not whether to increase aid, but how best to finance it.

The effect on underlying financial markets volatility may not even be the right question to consider in deciding whether to permit new derivative products.

To answer these questions, look no farther than soccer.

We should have set off earlier.

In short, we will have to wait for the data on house prices in June and July to know whether there has been a permanent turnaround.

We do not attempt to explain whether the American people were deliberately misled regarding the war s costs, or whether the Bush administration s gross underestimate should be attributed to incompetence, as it vehemently argues is true in the case of weapons of mass destruction.

Today we ask, why South Africa!?

But, if those hard to reach children are to benefit, our efforts must be scaled up significantly.

He wished to know whether that was indeed the case.

In science we have to keep the whole database, and look to see if the number of hits somehow stands out from the total number that you would expect by chance.