All of this raises many questions about how we respond and how we should respond to such tragedies.

As so often happens in biotechnology, what looks at first like an abstruse technical issue raises many questions that cut to the core of our humanity.

And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.

This pattern, likely to continue into the next decade, raises important questions.

The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.

But, whatever the merits of a banking union and there are many proposals to establish one raise more questions than can currently be answered.

The fact that China is already Africa s top trading partner, for example, invites questions about the proposed bank s potential contributions.

It raises questions about the stringencies of the World Bank s eligibility criteria and allocation models which can prevent support of the most needy.

While the Evian approach is presented by the Paris Club as an improvement on the traditional terms applied to middle income countries, it nevertheless raises a number of questions.

Were Berlusconi only a tycoon, such reports would not raise many eyebrows.

More fundamentally, the mentioning of Aceh in this Nobel citation raises serious questions about the mental maps used by the Nobel Prize Committee in making these awards.

Unfortunately, many of these methods cannot be applied to the most important questions facing economic policymakers.

Indeed, serious questions are now being raised as to whether the country can survive in its present form.

That raises the question of globalization, which entails concerted action on many fronts by the international community.

Economic sanctions alone are dubious against the world s most sanctioned country. And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.

The Yellowstone fires of 1988 were unprecedented in the history of the National Park Service, and many questioned existing fire management policies.

Did companies that compensated their traders (and not just their CEOs) more highly take more risk? Was financial institutions assumption of excessive risk the result of incompetence or stupidity, or was it a rational response to the implicit guarantee offered by the government?

Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.

All of which raises the question of whether China will eventually replace the US as the world s hegemon, the global economy s rule setter and enforcer.

In short, many central bankers who served in the heady pre crisis years have much to answer for. Given their excessive belief in unfettered markets, they turned a blind eye to palpable abuses, including predatory lending, and denied the existence of an obvious bubble.

The release from N Djamena jails in the past months of several opponents today in the ranks of Séléka supports such suspicion.

His mysterious death has raised a lot of questions.

The questions are many. Are today s rich countries prepared for an era of co dependency, in which they are just as desperate for commodities as developing countries are for industrial imports and technology?

Yasukuni Shrine is controversial for many people across East Asia since the shrine memorializes, among others, convicted Japanese war criminals.

What is particularly worrying for many countries is the extent of significantly modified or imputed data.

Little wonder, then, that the Commission has issued a warning that crisis related fiscal expansion and the aging population raise questions about the sustainability of public finances in the EU.

Let us begin with the many questions raised at the trial.

Economic questions abound, too.

In both cases, there are more questions than answers.

These conditions of overexposure are for the most part unprecedented, raising numerous questions for which we don t yet have the right answers.

As is typical in science, each new discovery in evolutionary biology raises as many questions as it answers. Indeed, my field is now going through one of the most dynamic periods in its 150 year history.

The fact that such media bodies ignore one of the major tools of interacting with their audience raises a lot of questions that are not due to be discussed in this post.

But questions remain.

A number of questions were raised in respect of this provision of the draft instrument.

Many simply don t reply at all.

Then there is a set of questions concerning the impact of new technologies.

These are questions for a later day at least in many countries, prospects of a robust recovery are, at best, a year or two away.

Interestingly, many countries that performed better than Chile on these standardized tests have a lower income per capita.

The arrest of these well educated professionals, together with the Egyptian doctor Ayman al Zawahiri s role as al Qaeda s deputy leader, raises questions that go far beyond disaffection among Muslims and the consequences of America s misadventures in the Middle East.

ISLAMABAD Pakistan s domestic situation is becoming increasingly precarious. Indeed, serious questions are now being raised as to whether the country can survive in its present form.

Such questions are unfair.

Similar questions apply to India and Brazil.

The war did not resolve such questions.

My answer is no. The issue is therefore not about the beliefs themselves as much as it is about how the faithful deal with offense, and why.

Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.