Imagine a world in which iPods owners were randomly picked out and forced to somehow demonstrate that the tracks on their device had been legally acquired.

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In most theaters, the eight war maidens are an uninspiring bunch that sounds like they might have been randomly picked from the choir, but here at the Met, they were an impressive lot.

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Last year, if an investor randomly picked a fund with an expense ratio of 0.86% or less, putting it in the cheapest quintile of funds, he would have had a 45% chance of beating the index, according to Morningstar, instead of the 35% chance if he had picked any fund.

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Of the 42 drugs picked up randomly for scrutiny by the panel, the health ministry could not provide any documents on three drugs - pefloxacin, lomefloxacin and sparfloxacin.

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