If it were me, my carbo-loading (and post-race analgesics) would take the form of endless pints of Guinness.

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She also cooks up vats of creamy seafood, and muskoxen stew, and enough boiled potatoes to let you carbo-load for eternity.

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The racetrack is also trying to lure in more environmentally friendly high-performance racing series such as the TTXGP Zero-Carbo Electric Motorcycle Racing Series.

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Carbo Ceramics ( CRR - news - people ).

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Carbo Ceramics ( CRR - news - people )(CRR, 73) , a Houston firm that makes various forms of "proppant, " particles (sand or a synthetic substitute) injected along with the fracking fluid to keep the fissures propped open after the pressure is withdrawn.

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The basic fracking technology has been around a long time, but in the last few years this technology has made radical progress and improvement, and a leader in that is a Houston-based firm called Carbo Ceramics.

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That distinction goes to Bernie Carbo, a pinch hitter who walloped a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to erase a 6-3 Cincinnati lead.

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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.

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