"Whatever is going on in my life, once I'm on the field, it's a blank sheet of paper, " he said.

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Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.

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The smallest of these chargers, which convert light into electricity, weighs just 4 ounces, has dimensions that are slightly larger than a sheet of paper, and can provide significant power to a soldier in the field without the need for an alternative fuel source.

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They have now gone 20 games without keeping a clean sheet, and their defensive inadequacies go some way to explaining why Pulis chose to field Tommy Mooney as a lone striker.

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In the field clinic, a man was carefully wrapping the body of a seven-year-old girl in a white sheet.

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