Rod Wallace and Gabriel Amato have hamstring trouble, but Dodds believes he can step into their boots.

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Put on your shades and prepare to step into the boots of Duke Nukem, whose legend has reached epic proportions in the years since his last adventure.

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But it could be a step in seven-league boots, for pharmaceutical companies are only just beginning to mine the spectrum of psychological ailments that flesh is heir to.

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Allowing gamers to step into the virtual combat boots of the highly trained SEALs that took out Bin Laden will also give anyone interested a first-hand look at what transpired in those final hours.

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In Momonoura, an oyster-farming village, fishermen whose families have harvested the sea for centuries realise that, tsunami or not, their community is dying out, since young men and women do not want to step into their grandfathers' rubber boots.

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Yet even the shorter path seems strenuous as my boots sink into the snow with each step.

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