This year American and Afghan soldiers along one part of Afghanistan's uncertain border with Pakistan have become expert at these sounds and familiar with their perils.
There's a touch of the metaphysical, as well — visitations of the protagonist's late wife that are perched on the uncertain border of fantasies, dreams, and hallucinations.
Perhaps the medical profession should embrace the obvious: to be an organ donor is to choose a particular way to finish our dying, at the hands of a surgeon, after some uncertain border has been crossed — a line that will change with time and circumstance, and one that science will never be able to draw with precision.
"If it was all up to me," he explained, "I would have said, 'Take her organs.' " As Gary Greenberg wrote in The New Yorker, donating organs in such a manner, deliberately and with anesthesia, could simply be "a particular way to finish our dying, at the hands of a surgeon, after some uncertain border has been crossed".
The Conference of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI) was held this year to discuss the theme: Applied Arts under IP Law – The Uncertain border between Beauty and Usefulness.
Diplomacy had been made subordinate to military priorities, but the deepest problems were not susceptible to military solutions: the uncertain border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and ingrained Pakistani fear of India being the main ones, though by no means the only ones.
To this purpose and because of uncertain border between orbitofrontal and insular Ia/Id, we selected the area delimited by the limiting sulcus up to the limen of the insula anteriorly (morphological insula).
The extent of the insula is generally depicted as bounded by the 2 limbs of the limiting sulcus, but anteriorly, beyond the limen insula, the uncertain border with orbitofrontal cortex lead Mesulam and Mufson (1982a) to place only an "arbitrary division" between the 2 areas.
The Palestinian Authority reacted with concern today to reports that the Bush administration might call for creating an interim Palestinian state while leaving uncertain its final borders and the timetable for determining them.
They are being shuttled from one authority to another, crossing numerous borders, uncertain of the risks ahead.
