I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind.

The term was never defined in any formal setting, but the concept was not difficult to decipher.

In trying to decipher Asia s diplomatic future, Europeans are confronted, so to speak, with an embarrassment of riches.

We all see how others feel and react, but without the minimal historical and cultural tools necessary to decipher those reactions.

All of that was grammar school stuff compared to efforts to decipher the regime in North Korea, where the truth is far more opaque.

In 1969, after 35 years of work and five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin.

It is the playground of dozens of teams and hundreds of strikers and defenders, but without rules. Everything has become totally mixed up and chaotic, like a surreal painting that even Picasso or Salvador Dali couldn't decipher.

Attempts to decipher them date to the Byzantine and Islamic periods in Egypt, but only in 1822, after the discovery of the Rosetta stone and years of research by Thomas Young and Jean François Champollion, were hieroglyphs almost fully deciphered.

I will leave it to Shakespeare scholars to decipher what he had in mind. But for diplomats and historians, understanding the concept of ripeness is central to their jobs it refers to how ready a negotiation or conflict is to be resolved.

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by the mother of all crossword puzzles How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization.

The Shanghai World Expo is already two months in to its half year residency. Bloggers have been active in trying to decipher the purpose of the extravaganza, as well as keep track of the lightning speed developments few corners of Shanghai have been able to avoid in preparing for the event.

Secondly, the committees' documentation, like that of the Secretariat, as mentioned above, gives a purely positive picture of treaty ratification status, which makes the overall situation difficult to decipher a negative image that shows the hidden reality would be far more telling as it would highlight the necessary political priorities.