For some girls, the socks are not just a display of resistance to school rules.

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These episodes in individual tales display such striking regularities in aggregate that some of the social scientists who first applied the rules of probability to human affairs questioned the very notion of free will.

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The Smart Actions app helps automate everyday tasks and optimizes battery efficiency by letting customers create rules, such as automatically setting the phone to vibrate during work hours or dimming the display at a specific battery level.

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Wenger was critical of the decision to send off Vermaelen, which rules him out of the Gunners' next match at Birmingham, but praised his side for their display in the absence of the Belgian.

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They can influence it through choice of rules regarding eligibility, scoring, and fouls (to some extent), but the final combination on display on NBA courts mixes these choices with the unintended consequences of them along with team methods and with the long run evolution of player skills.

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