In September, an unmanned test flight blew up at 45, 000 feet over tiny Van Horn, Texas.

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As his relieved parents steered him into the house, Haddie blew up at her brother, who was chattering about his lizard.

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In 1996, an ammunition dump at the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul blew up, killing at least 60 people.

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"It was Pablo who blew up the train at Arevalo, " Anselmo said.

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When she finally accused him, he blew up because he was at a low point and she was blindsiding him with an accusation that was far from true.

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The NYPD bomb squad blew up all 5, 000 pounds at once!

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At just 19 he blew up the record industry as the cofounder of the music-sharing site Napster.

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For example, students tended to wait for the professor to start the class, then they all booted up at once, which blew out a couple transceivers, Kaufman says.

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The Americans have been battling al-Qaeda in the region ever since it blew up the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing at least 225 people.

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The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.

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At one point, Ed Bemis went outside to take pictures, and a wave came up, blew out their door and knocked down his wife.

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