The two M651 rounds ricocheted off the bunker and bounced uselessly into a field.

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"A large number of patients are being treated uselessly, " says Fernando Martinez, professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona.

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Most kites have a wrist leash that releases one side of the kite when the surfer lets go of the control bar, so the kite flaps uselessly like a flag instead of dragging the surfer underwater (it can happen).

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My companion could not have known that this would hold up as the lone MacGyver moment in a lifetime of my standing around uselessly while other people fix stuff, but she can attest to it now, as she has usually been the one, since then, doing the fixing.

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