The ship looked like it hadn't been refitted since the Flood, and it smelled like Noah's old boot.

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"This is like Noah's Ark wrecking here in Zanesville, " he said.

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Rose is undoubtedly the most talented player on the Bulls, but Chicago's soul belongs to players like Joakim Noah, struck with plantar fasciitis, pogo-sticking himself up and down the court on one foot to help his team beat Brooklyn.

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This occurred to me (yet again) during the deafening first sequence of "Lethal Weapon 4, " which consists of an armor-clad gunman with a super-deluxe flame thrower and a submachine gun walking through what looks like the rainstorm that forced Noah to build an ark.

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Lines weren't a problem at the branded food stands like Big Mario's Pizza and Noah's Famous Rolled Pretzels.

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Having already spent a night at the Ark, a quirky Noah's Ark-like lodge tucked into the thick, verdant forests of Kenya's Aberdare National Park, I was familiar with the drill: one bell meant elephants arriving to the salt lick and watering hole that the back of the lodge overlooks.

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"It feels like you have needles underneath your foot while you're playing, " Noah said.

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Like most Arabs of the time, he was familiar with the stories of Noah, Lot, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus and knew that some people expected the imminent arrival of an Arab prophet, but it never occurred to him that he would be entrusted with this mission.

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"Kobe Bryant, Joakim Noah and Roger McDowell are not any different from many people in our society who use offensive language like that on a daily basis, " said Jarrod Chin of the Society for the Study of Sport in Society at Boston's Northeastern University.

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