Beneath the rock star antics on view strictly for customers, Faulkner is not eager to telegraph her newfound wealth and power.

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He sketched his own directions for the watch, which included a blue-enamel JWP monogram on the back case with hour, minute and second displays beneath the rock crystal glass.

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Finally, the granite giant was laid to rest hovering over a 456ft-long, 15ft deep walkway at the museum, where visitors can walk beneath the massive rock to admire its immensity against the sky.

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Already Finnish nuclear utility Posiva is test-drilling the rock beneath Olkiluoto island with the idea of interring waste one-third of a mile down.

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The acidic water causes the erosion of the soluble rock layers beneath the surface - eventually creating cavernous spaces.

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Gravity pulled the water into New Orleans streets and kept it diving into basements and subbasements, stopping only when it reached the most solid rock at the lowest levels beneath the city.

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With gas prices so high, the oil industry sees profits on the high plains of northwest Colorado, or more specifically in the rock that lies beneath them.

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To do so they're pushing the frontiers of imaging technology to peer beneath miles of water, rock and salt layers thousands of feet thick--all in the hopes of finding billions of barrels of oil trapped below.

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The key challenge lies, of course in tapping into the juice, most of which is buried beneath layers of porous rock formations called shale.

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