Hyrenbach, an assistant professor of oceanography at Hawaii Pacific University, pulled out a small bottle top.

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Champagne Sabering 101 is held every night at twilight and this ritual -- where a sword is used to slice off the top of a champagne bottle -- must be seen to be believed.

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Cover with a plate of the same size and add a heavy weight on top (such as a large bottle of water) so that water can be squeezed out of the aubergines.

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Pascal saw a brief spark, and the top of his bottle broke apart, leaving a jagged gap in the glass.

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The whole thing is supported by a carabiner laced through a loop in the top of the skinny bottle, so the sanitizer can be suspended from a backpack, messenger bag or other carrying case for easy access to its cleansing contents.

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Therefore, I would say, out with the performance-related pay for top managers (a good bottle of wine at Christmas and, if you insist, a small cheque like the rest of us would do).

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You hold it over your glass, or if you want to get fancy, a decanter, you pour wine in the top straight from the bottle and aerated wine comes out the bottom.

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Upstairs I pulled a tissue from the box in the bathroom and unscrewed the top of the brown bottle.

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When he saw the new girl twist the top off her bottle, he did the same, and when she took a sip he did, too.

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The Strand is still there, but totally renovated as a top-of-the-range hotel, where a bowl of spicy lentil soup and a bottle of Mandalay beer will cost you as much as a room once did.

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