It's as if the Government doesn't understand that there are elemental questions at stake, questions of scientific potential, questions of nuclear safety.

It's a moment when you get to erase everything that's irrelevant and ask the most elemental questions - about survival, family, children, legacy.

As the United States moves into the breach, elemental questions remain.

In a simple, charming manner, Ms. Pearson tackles those elemental soul-wracking questions of who am I and what does all this mean?

These were all "deep thoughts," elemental questions beyond understanding that had been buried since I learned to "reason."

But the more elemental question is whether black candidates can appeal to whites, and how much they will have to bend to do so.

The Bush campaign, loaded with present and former White House officials, seems less concerned with such elemental questions.

You only ask yourself the most elemental questions.

As Elizabeth Drew noted in her book "On the Edge," this was exactly the elemental question: which would it be?

The philosophy of healthcare is primarily concerned with the following elemental questions: