In recent decades, the skeletal figure has been reproduced everywhere from ice-cube trays to political posters.

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It should never be mixed, and only served neat or maybe with one ice-cube.

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These ice-cube-size crystals are grown slowly in ovens heated as high as 1, 800 degrees Fahrenheit, adding just one centimeter in a day.

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The collector basically looks like a tennis racket filled with ice cubes, so this is kind of like a big ice-cube tray, and each ice cube is not made out of ice, but it's made out of this aerogel.

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There's also Common, E-40, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Scarface, Slick Rick and Q-Tip -- again, a poetic bunch who've been in the game for more than a minute -- but none is Nas.

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There's also Common, E-40, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Scarface, Slick Rick, KRS-One, Chuck D and Q-Tip -- again, a poetic bunch who've been in the game for more than a minute -- but none is Nas.

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Some 1, 200 Rubbermaid plastic gewgaws like 45-cent ice cube trays are gone for now.

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It launched the legendary careers of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and the late Eazy-E.

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Regardless of how markets choose to act in the short-term each time a speechifying Fed Governor or John Hilsenrath drops another ice cube in, you should know that the actual QE Exit is a four-step process and will play out over years, not weeks or months.

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