Prosecutors charged Woodward with first-degree murder, accusing her of shaking Matthew and slamming his head against a hard surface.

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But just as his head dropped below the surface, and the boat tugged against his grip, his feet found the sand, and he stood.

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He knelt down and crawled from the switch rails to the frog of the crossover, sliding his hand along the running surface and the head of the rail and feeling for possible corrugations or dents, or burrs shaved off by the wheels of the locomotives.

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Heck, even the Surface Pro reared its head backstage at the show.

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The severity of the laboratory test was equivalent to an oblique collision with the rocky surface of the Earth - a comet coming in at an angle of less than 25 degrees from the horizon, rather than head on (perpendicular to the Earth's surface).

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"Maybe this suggests it was wet not so long ago and hasn't penetrated so far into the surface, " said Dr Marty Tomasko, head of the Huygens imaging instrument.

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On the surface Vasella is unimposing and soft-voiced, a gentleman from head to toe.

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