Right before the start--after I'd warmed up, changed jerseys, swallowed some energy goo and hydrated--I emptied every last drop from my water bottles.

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It is a pipe-eating, planet-cooking, water-fouling goo that nobody knows how to get out of our water.

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Holt Lloyd can now put its eye-catching goo into Prestone's Bullet sponges and sell a whole lot more wax overseas.

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The Atlanta-based company claims to be the first candy maker in the world to have completely overhauled its product line--including sour Suck Ups liquid candy, Super Sweet or Sour Blast spray candy, Xtra Sour Goo and Dream Chews--in 2004 to remove all refined sugars and replace them with fruit juice concentrate.

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Even issues that appear to have bipartisan support -- such as capping student loan interest rates -- get stuck in the goo of Congress.

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In early 19th- century Pennsylvania, this goo was considered a depressor of property values because oil made it hard to grow crops and made farm animals sick.

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The domestic squabbles within the ruptured family are realistic and raw, and the climax is like something out of a home-invasion thriller (but with more goo).

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And even the black goo used by the ancient Romans to lubricate their chariot axels was a petroleum-based form of natural tar.

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