But a terse statement from his physicians saying he would not return immediately to his remote, rural home at Qunu in the Eastern Cape region raised questions that his family and associates sought to answer a day later.
The article, which highlighted Mr. Ramdev's ideological inconsistencies and drew attention to allegations of corruption leveled against his close aides, sought to answer a fundamental question: What makes Ramdev click with the crowds?
In it, he sought to answer a question familiar to his fellow-educators: How much of what students learn in the school year do they forget during the long summer break?
Still, this is an important book because it seeks to answer a question that few other popular works pose: What does it take for people like the author to become fully American?
The second, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine, a wonderful documentary by Alex Gibney (who recently got under the skin of that other pervasive cult, Scientology, in Going Clear), is a film that seeks to answer a single question: why were people so affected by Steve Jobs's death?
There are a number of reasons for undertaking this inquiry, and we seek to answer a number of interrelated questions.
I had spent years investigating visitor perceptions and misconceptions about human evolution; I had published a book that sought to answer a simple question: "How do museum visitors perceive human evolution exhibitions?" (Scott 2007).
Political economy, or a general sociology, then seeks to answer a question similar to the third, external question of differentiation posed by the philosophical discussion of the concept of law.
"Mining the external social web for data is a huge task in itself, and [tools like Rapportive] do it well," Blom said about the competition, explaining that Morse seeks to answer a different need.
In anticipation of "Shark Week," the Discovery Channel had been drumming up hype for a one-hour special that sought to answer a burning question: Could Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps outpace a great white shark in the open sea?
