• Driving is completely routine -until we have a near-miss, or worse, get into an accident.

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  • The iHome offering marks another near-miss in the quest to find a fun and affordable MP3 alarm clock.

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  • Many assumed that the near-miss attempt on Mr Saleh's life would put paid to his ambitions to hang on.

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  • The most promising moment of all came at the beginning of this decade, with Mr Clinton's near-miss at Camp David.

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  • Alarmed by last year's near-miss in Kenya, American inspectors have been visiting airports around the world to assess planes' vulnerability to missile attacks.

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  • Sabril warrants close attention because it's a clear near-miss for the drug approval system, a case where a medicine with a clear benefit for desperate patients foundered.

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  • Mr. Morrison listed five near-miss incidents in November and December, including one in which natural gas escaped from a pipe aboard BP's Pompano platform, threatening an explosion.

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  • From their observations, they were able to calculate the asteroid's future and past paths and predict Friday's near-miss - which will be the closest the object comes for at least 30 years.

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  • If this "sungrazing" comet survives intact, it should emerge from the near-miss even brighter than before, and could be lighting up our skies through January 2014 - perhaps even in broad daylight.

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  • Moreover, the Jordanian near-miss underscores the point that we should take no comfort from the fact that the status of such weapons is unknown, since some of them may wind up being used outside Iraq.

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  • Pele produced the tournament's most memorable cameos, including his famous near-miss from the halfway line against Czechoslovakia and an astonishing dummy that sent the ball past a bewildered Uruguayan keeper -- though neither moment led to a goal.

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  • Watson won a total of eight major championships (and another five on the senior Tour), had that iconic chip-in on the 17th hole at Pebble Beach in the 1982 U.S. Open and also, of course, that heartbreaking near-miss at the 2009 British Open at Turnberry.

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  • And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.

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  • It might sound like the plot of a Hollywood movie, but one gigantic asteroid is scheduled to come within 20, 000 miles of Earth in the near future -- a near miss in cosmic measurements -- and the possibility remains that it could hit our planet and cause catastrophic devastation never seen before.

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  • Oosthuizen, who had a 30-hour journey to Kuala Lumpur after his near miss at Augusta, closed with a four-under-par 68 to hold off the challenge of Scotland's Stephen Gallacher.

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  • And there, despite her legal handicap, the opposition leader Miss Jayalalitha has two near-constants of Indian politics in her favour, disenchantment with the state government and pre-poll alliances.

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  • The romantic elements feel tacked-on (save for one alluring near miss) and much of the humor is forced.

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  • We've got you covered even if you miss a game with near instant 3-minute highlight packs after the game and a Weekly Top 5 that helps you talk about the great save, amazing goal or hard-hitting action.

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  • Wiltshire Police have been searching 4, 500-acre Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, for signs of Miss O'Callaghan because mobile phone records put her telephone in that area soon after leaving the nightclub.

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  • The jury heard that two cars were spotted travelling "at speed" through the village of Combe St Nicholas, near Chard, at about 05:15 GMT on the morning Miss Wells-Burr body was discovered in her burning car.

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