Young people and children help with the preparations and parents make copies of traditional masks for their sons.

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To get them to relax, he tried to make a game out of the preparations.

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Because of the susceptibility of U.S. information networks, perhaps the greatest preparations the United States can make is to conduct military exercises without the use of continuous, high-bandwidth communications between units.

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Many writers declare that the accretion of knowledge and early preparations would make victory inevitable.

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Sources said the Taliban may have been watching the troops make preparations to depart and launched their attack at a time of vulnerability.

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Families thus begin preparations to help the spirits find their way home and to make them welcome, starting with an arch made of bright-yellow marigolds - a symbolic doorway from the underworld.

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