Word: decoys
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Pakistan seems to be stumbling from one crisis to the next - militancy, extremism, and the assassination of Bhutto. Are elections going to help? The ballot will not provide all the solutions to the problems Pakistan faces today. It a decoy, and a diversion. It's the turn on the road that Musharraf has taken fervently, but it is not the road to a solution. He is running along this road because he can deceive the West more easily by saying he is going through the process of free and fair elections, and the West, alas, is ready to be deceived...
...Middle East, and arguably the prettiest. But it's a tougher place for U.S. diplomats, who live in a fortified hillside compound just north of the capital that they rarely leave, and never without bodyguards. Top officials travel in convoys of armored vehicles, which sometimes break up into decoy mini-convoys to confuse would-be attackers. One of the rumors floating around the bomb scene this evening was that the target vehicles were in fact part of such a decoy convoy...
...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves. The MDA claims the SBX is powerful enough to spot a flying baseball in San Francisco from New York, and more importantly, to tell the difference between a real missile heading for America and a decoy...
...contest got off to a quick start. At 4:42 into the first period, Harbec and Duggan charged into the Crimson zone, with Harbec in control of the puck. Using Duggan as a decoy, Harbec took it to the net herself for the unassisted goal...