Thirty years ago some contractors used brittle PVC pipes that burst when they froze.
In another incident in Bala, Gwynedd, a fire was started after water dripped into an electric heater used to defrost pipes.
The American Cancer Society is pushing to make New York the first state to enact a comprehensive restriction on the sale of candy- and fruit-flavored cigarillos, chewing tobacco and tobacco used in water pipes.
The heat -- from both the crowd and the melted, flattened pipes he used as blades -- did not deter him.
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Outside, everyone looks busy, from elderly ladies selling socks to young men welding pipes and repairing used electronics.
The team also showed how a large number of light pipes could be used to form a kind of dot matrix display.
The Disney team used a series of these pipes to funnel light up from the base of a toy demon into its eyes.
The robots they make are used to explore water and sewage pipes, and find leaks and breaks before they become expensive problems.
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Saddam's regime used to pay tribes to protect the pipes on their land.
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That limits what they can be used for, since you need different combinations of pipes to bring chemicals together in the right order for different sorts of reactions to take place.
It could be used to install objects in hard-to-reach places such as underground water pipes, he suggested.
Bamboo is also used for making paper, furniture and instruments, from flutes and drums to the pan pipes of the Andes.
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"All the pipes look shiny clean, no crud, " Mr. Cassidy said as he used a long, dental-like mirror to peer into tight, deep openings.
For instance, the elaborate system of manifolds and pipes had to be designed to avoid any 90-degree corners, so the bulky material used in the junk shot didn't get stuck.
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