A wife... and perhaps other entanglements as well. Who knows?

Volgenau, L., S. D. Kraus and J. Lien. The impact of entanglements on two substocks of the western North Atlantic humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.

The natural context for an inquisitorial system is a field where scientific integrity is regularly under threat because research is entangled with political or financial interests. Often, these entanglements are unavoidable, especially in the case of biomedical research.

In particular, Germany, the EU s largest country, has hesitated to contribute forces, funds, and even strategic advice, reflecting its dark military history. Merkel, her involvement in negotiations over Ukraine aside, has deferred to the German public s historically rooted objections to deeper foreign entanglements.

Page, B. et al. A summary of Australian sea lion and New Zealand fur seal entanglements in marine debris pre and post implementation of Australian Government fishery bycatch policies. The Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Conference 2003, Brisbane, Queensland, 9 11 July 2003, 2003.

At least in the case of the Murdoch empire, it now appears that they pursue long and binding relationships with politicians and the police as well. Indeed, political entanglements are one of two sources of weakness in European style family capitalism, as owners seek political advantages and preferred access as much as they strive for technical innovation.

America s financial difficulties and foreign entanglements, together with China s economic ascent, led many last year to envisage the emergence of a sort of global condominium between the two countries. The G 8 had morphed by necessity into the G 20, which, whenever it really mattered, would shed its zero the United States and China would call the shots.

America s newfound taste for delegating military responsibilities to others is not the result of a series of events, but the product of a long term process driven by America s simultaneous ambivalence toward the world and active engagement with it. Is it worth fighting for a world that cannot be saved, and that only invites murky, inconclusive entanglements?

Then came a nationwide scare about love jihad an alleged Muslim ploy to make India a Muslim majority country by seducing Hindu girls into romantic entanglements that would lead to their conversion to Islam. No sooner had this BJP fueled hysteria been widely dismissed Muslims comprise 13 of India s population, and there have been only a handful of such marriages than the inflammatory rhetoric mounted.