It was given to me, in the bowels of the Pentagon, by a man with a white dust jacket and a pointer who looked uncannily like Woody Allen.

It's just that we're always thinking of this guy as lagging behind us, evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us, and in some cases, he gets places before us.

Indeed, a recent study by Nomura Securities finds that China s financial risk profile today uncannily resembles those of Thailand, Japan, Spain, and the United States on the eve of their financial crises.

This insight of Einstein's is uncannily close to that of Buddhist psychology, wherein compassion karuna, it is called is defined as, the sensitivity to another's suffering and the corresponding will to free the other from that suffering.

This insight of Einstein's is uncannily close to that of Buddhist psychology, wherein compassion karuna, it is called is defined as, the sensitivity to another's suffering and the corresponding will to free the other from that suffering.

The world s first wave of economic globalization, led by the British Empire in the nineteenth century, came to an end literally with a bang on a Sunday afternoon in 1914, when Gavrilo Princip killed (with two uncannily well aimed bullets) Austria s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.