The girls had done their job well but the Swiss stone was close to the button and there was a red guard blocking so I had to draw the stone round from the left, miss the Swiss guard and put the stone right in the centre of the house.

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If this gang warfare in cyberland reaches its logical conclusion, rather than living in a civilized society, we will all inhabit, metaphorically at least, stone castles with draw bridges, from which we never emerge adorned with less than 500 lbs of steel armor.

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But she left her final stone short in end seven to allow Denmark a simple draw for three.

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Five miles to the south, the village of Alnmouth tends to draw gasps from passengers on the nearby Edinburgh-London train line for its narrow lanes, cute cottages and old stone buildings.

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