Our obsession with avoiding the gray inevitability of death has inadvertently brought our most important values into an equally shadowy region where they risk being diagnosed as terminal, as surely as Barney Clark was six years ago.
NASA intentionally crashed a satellite into a shadowy cratered region of the moon, and the resultant debris contained what project scientists called "a significant amount" of that most precious of resources: water.
It is jointly owned by the city, the region and a shadowy company registered in Panama, MIDI PHI Holding Corporation.
In "Territory," for example, she suggests a mountainous region dominated by a shadowy peak, over which a miasmic sky casts a pall.
The problem of Cotzumalhuapa has been linked with that of the Pipil, a shadowy people living in the same region on the eve of the Spanish conquest, who spoke Nahua rather than Maya.
Authorities labelled that incident a terrorist attack and blamed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a shadowy group based in Xinjiang, a north-western region of China.
Over the past two years, American-backed government troops from Yemen and the United Arab Emirates have expanded a shadowy war in Yemen's central and southern regions.
The investigation into the attack immediately centered on Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamic extremist group with possible links to Al Qaeda's affiliates in the region.
Boko Haram, a shadowy Nigerian Islamist insurgency group with possible links to Al Qaeda's affiliates in the region, claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to the BBC's Hausa language broadcast service in northern Nigeria.
But the alliance between Islamic parties and extremist groups is also becoming something of a political liability, as many of the recent terrorist attacks in the region have been pinned on radical groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah, a shadowy network of groups spread across Southeast Asia.
