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It is all just very, very interesting.

There are many things to watch.

When it comes in and out, there can be an effect like a diamond ring.

You are actually seeing the silhouette of the mountains on the moon.

If there is a little valley where the sunlight can poke through, this little glint of light will be there for just a second." The best viewing sites are expected to be in Libya, where the eclipse will last for more than four minutes, roughly twice as long as the average eclipse.

Libya can normally be difficult to visit as a tourist, but the Libyan government has issued thousands of special visas to eclipse watchers who will watch the spectacle from several different spots in the Libyan desert.

In Egypt, the eclipse is only visible from this tiny corner of the country, an eight-hour drive from Cairo.

Busloads of tourists are camping in tents in a special viewing area within sight of the Libyan border, since there are few hotels here to house them.

Many of them, including Nancy Cox, plan to visit some of Egypt's more familiar, and more accessible, tourist sites before leaving the country.

"I wanted to see pyramids along with my eclipse," she added.

"[I want to see the] Pyramids and all the ancient monuments, because I have been on this kind of quest to see ancient antiquities, before I am an antiquity!

" Cox plans to paint the eclipse afterward, because she says some things simply cannot be captured on film.

It takes special camera equipment to photograph t...

I just was ready to go today.

Q.

Were you able to bring yourself down a little bit?

JILL CRAYBAS: Yeah, I mean, obviously I enjoyed the moment yesterday but I knew that I had another round to play the next day so I tried to keep my focus and, you know, I'll celebrate after.

Q.

Have you played Zheng before?

JILL CRAYBAS: Only once and it was a while ago, it was three or four years ago.

I played her in China, yeah.

Q.

What happened?

JILL CRAYBAS: I won.

Was a really long match.

Very long match.

Q.

She gets them back?

JILL CRAYBAS: Yeah, we play a little bit similar, run a lot of balls down, get a lot of balls on the court.

So it should be a good match.

Q.

I know you say you live for the moment.

Do you get a chance in that moment to look ahead at the draw at all?

JILL CRAYBAS: No, I don't.

One match at a time.

Q.

Superstitious?

JILL CRAYBAS: Not really superstitious, that's just how I've always looked at the draw, just one match at a time.

Q.

This crop of Chinese players are is coming in.

Do you see a type of style you can identify?

JILL CRAYBAS: They're all just great hitters, they have a lot of energy, they're just really confident right now and you can tell they have fun out there when they go out there and play.

They do hit the ball pretty similarly, pretty much flat and hard, most of them hit it like that.

But, you know, you can tell they're just out there to have fun and that's why they're doing well.

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So much so they are becoming even more of a threat to our society for simply not ba href=/sleep/a/bing enough.

The study finds that:During the past year, 51 percent of adolescents have driven while drowsy.

Some 15 percent of drivers in grades 10 to 12 drive drowsy at least once a week.

I've driven drowsy once or twice so I can tell you, it's not safe.

We need to pre-empt the danger teenagers pose our society by locking them up, perhaps on an island camp where they will wear orange jumpsuits and be forced to listen to loud music, oh wait they like that.

I mean, we'll force them to read something other than Harry Potter books.

We could ship all teenagers out there when they hit 13, maybe even 12, then when they turn 17.5, we'll give them a rifle and send them to occupy some country.

Let them endanger enemy combatants; terrorize the axis of evil.

And parents (i.e.

voters) would support this because it would save them years of complaining and nagging from their post-cute, awkwardly-pubescent, emotionally-unstable offspring.

Of course, it would be a lobbying showdown against the teen consumer industry - flanked by heavyweights such as Viacom (MTV's owners), the makers of the 'Scary Movie' series, Nike and fast food chains.

Who wants to take to the streets with me on this?

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Oh, that's right, you're probably too afraid you'll get hit by a drowsy teenager driving Mom's mini-van.

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