Public spaces between housing blocks cut off from city streets are difficult to police.

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If you really want to cut through huge blocks of text, you're still better off using the scroll wheel on your mouse.

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Working alongside the volunteers, they were handed poles to break off blocks or head-high saws to cut through the ice.

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It uses Provel, a processed cheese made by Kraft that comes in big blocks, and the pies are usually cut checkerboard-style into squares, so many interior pieces have no crust.

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Cut to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located eight blocks away, just inside Central Park.

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He then printed outlines of the necessary building blocks onto sheets of baked gingerbread, and used a 50-watt laser engraver to cut them out and score icing guides for the final touches later on.

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The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.

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On this particular day, though, I was only a few blocks into town when I spotted a tidy little hotel surrounded by a lawn that was being cut by a man with a pair of scissors.

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