One photo showed a truck perched precariously at the broken edge of the carriageway.

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Lebanon, always perched precariously on the edge of crisis, lives with growing fears that Syria's war will enter its borders.

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The beehive wearers flout this convention by piling their locks straight upward from the forehead, sometimes nearly a foot high, with their veils perched precariously on top.

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Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.

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