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The pair first remembered the horses showing up in remote areas around the lake in 2015, as the state was gripped by drought.

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Human hands, however, are equipped with thousands of nerve endings of dizzying variety, giving fingers the feedback needed to grip and manipulate tools.

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Many fear that widespread weapons, tensions between powerful families and Hamas's grip on power could spiral into scenes resembling civil war in a territory already gripped by displacement, destruction, and fear of further lawlessness.

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Then it doesn’t, and we’re left trying to reconcile a legitimately gripping tale of one family’s ordeal with what we know about the suffering that’s occurred during the two years of war since.

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He also called on the government "yet again", to "get a grip on these demonstrations, they are dangerous".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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