Once again, what looks like one thing turns out to be another type of crime entirely, after a brutal encounter with the outside world.

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We live under the rule of cool, and we are expected to encounter the vicissitudes of the world with a certain degree of irony.

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But the greatest encounter with reality is when Zar Gul takes us into the world of institutionalized corruption, of whoring, paid-off policemen, of a man who sells his daughter into marriage like a slave.

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Until the first world war, and an encounter at the age of 38 with a soldier on a beach near Alexandria, he was painfully virginal.

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In another study, more than 30 percent of free-ranging honeybees whose brains were doused with the neonic thiamethoxam which is not the way bees encounter the chemical in the real world got confused, failing to return to the hive.

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The world No. 28's reward is a last-16 encounter with Italy's Sara Errani , who also upset the odds to progress as she knocked out Ivanovic.

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In the real world, we rarely encounter a situation that can be completely modeled with an analytical (rational) model, so the correct answer to the model cannot purport to be the definitively correct answer to the real world situation.

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It was a crunch encounter to kick off the elite eight-man tournament, with only one place separating them in the world rankings, but Britain's Murray dominated the decider to delight his home crowd at the O2 Arena.

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And no, for those of you who are wondering, we didn't encounter any problems with WiFi or GPS, like some Prime owners, though these are admittedly the kinds of issues real-world owners might stumble across after an extended honeymoon period.

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