As the Israeli and Syrian teams hurry back to Washington to resume negotiations, we are told this is thelast and onlychance for peace and that Israel must take it or face war.
Edinburgh's tight-head prop Cross joined the Scotland squad that travelled to play the Pumas last summer, but only now is he being given thechance to shine.
The three presidential debates are thelast big set piece events of the two-year campaign and theonlychance for voters to see the two candidates side-by-side.
Yet a child in thelast grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
But some analysts have suggested his surrender was his last resort and onlychance of staying alive after splits within the M23 rebels, the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague says.
The largest-ever study of twins with ASD 192 pairs reported last year that when one identical twin has autism, there is only a 70% chance that the other twin will, despite their identical genetic makeup.