"You can't get a machine to pick one strawberry and not the one next to it, " he said.

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Hughes fell to Chris Tremlett, while James Anderson got through 20 overs and was unlucky not to pick up at least one wicket of his own.

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"In general, in game design you want to pick one or the other and not combine a bunch, " Meretzky says, adding there are few games that have mixed elements of different styles of games into one successful game.

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Pace bowlers Umar Gul and Wahab Riaz were unfortunate not to pick up at least one early wicket at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, which is hosting its first Test while Pakistan use the United Arab Emirates as a temporary home base.

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And even if you pick one, it's not every consumer who is comfortable working behind the wall plate.

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The foragers could not see inside the boxes and were allowed to pick only one card at a time, through a hand hole, using their dominant hand.

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Joni Mitchell feels like a token pick, and Prince, while a very talented artist, is certainly not one of the ten best living songwriters in the world.

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Warning: While custodians for self-directed IRAs do sponsor seminars featuring promoters, they're not allowed to recommend specific investments and aren't on the hook if you pick a bad or bogus one.

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"For every senior job, there is probably 10 qualified people, and it's hard to be the person to tell the nine that they are not the number one pick, " said former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.

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