One could argue that Oladipo's physical skill alone is enough to make him the season's best player.

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The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. iReport.com : Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?

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The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds, much like physical exercise.

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All of the services have their own ways of determining qualifications and skill and what is the difference between physical strength and ability, but the gentleman raised a very important issue, and that is the draft, because one of the unintended consequences of this kind of legislation could be to take a problem in recruiting women into support positions and then precipitate a crisis.

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Fast play would become one of the skill sets tested for, just as distance off the tee, physical stamina and dealing with pressure are among the skills tested for now.

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The hunt for the right actor to play the franchise's new agent was a long and publicly documented one, a process that was difficult because Gilroy knew he needed an actor with the skill to carry the theatrical components but who could also handle the physical rigor of the shoot.

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And the reason that dancers are often said to peak in their early 30s (that sweet spot where Hines and Baryshnikov were when they made the movie, thus the reference to it) is where the increase in skill and experience is still just ahead of the decrease in pure physical ability.

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