Word: dices
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...Northern Alliance's traditional position is to stand down during the winter, but this will not be a traditional winter. The U.S. will be supplying them, disrupting Taliban supply lines and bombing Taliban positions. So all bets are off; this winter will be a throw of the dice. Militarily it may be as bad as ever for the Northern Alliance, but it may also be a lot better...
...falling from a plane. A studio musician for pop stars like Kelly Chan and Leslie Cheung, Davy is the only LMFer who earns a living wage with his music. "I do pop music only for the money," Davy says, looking around the room, his neck tattooed with two dice rolling a hard eight. "But here it's my music. Here we do what we want...
...thing that will prevent future attacks of this sort. The most dangerous and effective method of terrorist deterrence will not be the random I.D. checks in airports, the constant armed guards, the relentless searching of carry-on baggage, the new and powerful x-ray machines that will slice and dice baggage onscreen, the armed sky marshals ready to drop any prospective terrorist in their tracks. Nor will it be the pilots armed with hollow point bullets ready to defend the sanctum of the cockpit, or any other high-tech or high-force solution. Rather, the most intimidating obstacle...
...past decade. And the authority of a monarch not seen in Afghanistan in 28 years (most of the fighters were not born when he went into exile) may not amount to much as old foes and their regional sponsors square off for a new roll of the political dice...
...String theory certainly has the potential to do what Einstein couldn?t - happily unify the subatomic and Newtonian worlds - and he?d probably prefer it to a universe explained by quantum theory. Einstein hated the idea of God playing dice with the universe - a God that played violin would have been much more to his liking...