It's all about perception. Just the idea of an attack in Saudi Arabia is enough to make the market jumpy.

We who read regularly and who encourage our families to do likewise, may find it hard to accept that there are homes in which there are few or perhaps no books.

It's been working, you know? We haven't had anybody suspended, I know that. We've been going through the drug tests since I've been here. We haven't had anybody suspended since I've been here. So I would assume it's working.

That stuff's expensive. Not a lot of guys in this league are willing to put that money out, and that's just one cycle.

All the games now are important. It's us just coming together as a team, fighting a little bit harder, turning up the concentration a little bit more. It's getting close to that time.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked.

"Vampires have folk tales?"

He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.