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Brains Confounded borrows from a wide variety of Arabic literary traditions and includes one-liners, anecdotes, accounts of adventure, and verse--both "high" and "low.

Meme-Makers, Puzzle Poems, and the Great Unwashed: Humphrey Davies on 'Brains Confounded' and 'Risible Rhymes'

Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, who led Labour's campaign in Wales, said: "Labour's result in Wales has exceeded expectations and confounded our critics and opponents.

Labour 'in good position' for 2011 election

To date (knock on wood), Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his associates have confounded their critics, ending the long series of hikes in U.

Bernanke's big bucks

In her meditation on vulnerability and the public choice between grief-work and violence, Judith Butler concludes: "For if I am confounded by you, then you are already by me, and I am nowhere without you.

Theopoetic/theopolitic

Contaminated land has vexed researchers, who don't want to risk introducing chronic wasting disease into diseasefree regions but don't want tests confounded by dirty fields.

Wasting deer: deer saliva and blood can carry prions

As such, a crucially important implication is that in studying connections between various aspects of implementation and the effectiveness of programs, we need to be alert to factors that may be confounded with differences in implementation.

Studying the Sensitivity of Inferences to Possible Unmeasured Confounding Variables in Multisite Evaluations. CSE Technical Report 701

But we admit that we're a little confounded with this usage.

Slips that pass in the night ..

Confounded by a shortage of qualified police recruits, city leaders unveiled a plan Tuesday to help new cops buy houses in Los Angeles and to pay the pension costs of officers poached from other cities.

CITY UNVEILS TWO-PRONGED POLICE RECRUIT PLAN

Throughout his career, Artschwager has confounded categorical limits and plotted his own trajectory, all the while making the visual comprehension of space--and the everyday objects that occupy it--strangely unfamiliar.

Richard Artschwager: Gagosian Gallery

Given the strengths of their study-notably, the use of two analytic approaches, including one designed to "circumvent unmeasured confounding and reduce its impact"-the researchers contend that "epidemiologic studies of condom effectiveness are probably confounded by unmeasured differences between users and nonusers.

Some studies may underestimate condom's role in STD prevention

Assessing environmental neurotoxicant exposures and child neurobehavior: confounded by confounding?

Low-level lead exposure and intellectual impairment in children: Koller et al. respond

Kevin and I were confounded by and grateful for the hospitality and generosity shown to us, two strangers who wandered into town.