An unauthorised Israeli strike that added to America's miscellaneous woes in the Middle East would test even the closest alliance, jeopardising Israel's relationship with its vital patron and armourer.
And today, that idea is being put to the test in the Middle East and North Africa.
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And, Rohit Sharma, the chosen successor to replace Laxman in the middle order, was denied his Test debut when he twisted his ankle playing football in the morning warm-up.
Grey whales exposed to a test source in the middle of their migration path altered their routes to avoid it, but once the source was moved out of the migration corridor and further into the ocean, they appeared to ignore it.
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Ed Smith scored 16 in an uncomfortable hour at the crease before Kallis trapped him on the crease, his dismissal bringing Alec Stewart to the middle for what could be his final Test innings.
After the date and time of the test was announced, in the middle of September, more than fifty organizations signed a petition objecting to the experiment, in part because they fear that even to consider engineering the climate would provide politicians with an excuse for avoiding tough decisions on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Many Republicans oppose raising taxes and oppose raising the minimum wage, but they could face a test in their new public campaign to appeal to middle-class and low-income Americans.
He has assumed greater responsibility in the middle order following Aravinda de Silva's decision to retire from Test cricket.
Al Faraj, 40, a property developer in the Middle East has already passed the Premier League's fit and proper test.
Left-armer Sidebottom, also in contention for a place in the final Ashes Test at The Oval next week, ripped through the Bears middle order with a devastating spell of swing bowling - taking his tally to 20 wickets in his last four matches at an average of 17.85.
Each pupil's performance in a set of tests is compared with the middle performance of all pupils nationally who had a similar performance at the previous test level.
Steyn then ended the Test in the most emphatic fashion, flattening Iain O'Brien's middle stump.
"This is something that you can't really recreate in a test lab, and telecom carriers can't be putting monitors in the middle of their networks, " says Jameson.
They may, however, decide to give Vaughan more time in county cricket before considering a recall to the Test side for the four-match series against Pakistan which starts in the middle of next month.
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Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.
Giles feels confident he will be match-fit for the first Test, starting on 23 November, even though he is out of practice in the middle.
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The willingness of middle-class parents to put time and money into extra tuition for their children meant a fair test at age 11 was impossible to design, he said.
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Geopolitical uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, surging oil prices, and the catastrophic earthquake in Japan will disrupt travel plans and test record high prices for online travel agencies.
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They outperformed 10 typical healthy older folk (average age 83) on a test that involved recalling lists of words, and they matched the performance of 14 healthy middle-aged volunteers (average age 58).
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Australia skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat first and was soon out in the middle when opener Phillip Hughes - a replacement for the injured Shane Watson - become Arnel's first Test wicket when he edged a catch to Ross Taylor at slip.
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