True to her word, the following morning Witheford was confronted with two zebras -- one of them so flighty it dashed straight out onto the motorway, where it narrowly escaped oncoming traffic.

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Samuel Eto'o had another quiet performance but came to life with two long-range efforts, one of which was venomous but straight at El Hadary, while the other was skied high and over.

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Miami and Dallas each were reversing recent years of decline: Before each one bottomed out and started its two-year surge, they had gotten worse for three straight years.

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That could prove very problematic, and the stakes are huge: American Idol is one of the biggest hits in American television history, the only show to be rated number one for seven straight years, and a rarity as a weekly mega-hit on two different nights and time slots.

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There is one street in El Castillo, and it led us straight to Hotel Victoria, a handsome two-story house wrapped in porches.

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In a more destructive but higher-stakes mode, two kids would run straight at each other at full speed until one (the chicken) turned away to avoid the collision.

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The 59 aircraft run by Emirates have all had two cameras on board since 1999 - one looking forward from the view of the pilot and the other looking straight down to the ground.

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This process will continue with one country being knocked out and their votes reallocated until there are two bidders left and there is a straight knock-out.

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