Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
In its first of two exhibition games before the World Baseball Classic, manager Joe Torre's team fell into a four-run hole through five innings, and needed three RBIs by Giancarlo Stanton and a run-scoring triple by David Wright to forge a 4-4 tie in a game called after nine innings.
Just when the United States and India were at last warming to each other, India's nuclear-bomb tests three years ago, provoking counter-blasts from Pakistan and blowing a hole through the global anti-proliferation effort, brought on a new chill.
The prop was then sin-binned for illegal use of the boot and, almost immediately, centre Gomer-Davies went through a hole on the Treviso 10-metre line on the left.
Criticised for not going through 36-hole qualifying for the US Open the day after winning the Memorial, he then raised eyebrows by choosing to play in Milwaukee rather than go to the Open at Royal Birkdale.
And Evans took full advantage when his fleet-footed skills punched a hole through Newcastle's weakened defence before touching down under the posts in the 32nd minute.
KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) Defending champion Ai Miyazato had five birdies in a late six-hole stretch Thursday at breezy Ko Olina to open a two-stroke lead midway through the second round of the LPGA Lotte Championship.
Washington filters our taxes through a bureaucratic black-hole before spewing out waste and vote-buying patronage.
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Where others have bludgeoned the Republican nominee, Fox News has nibbled, as if to indicate that telling the real, whole news would let too much water through the Titanic-like hole in the USS Romney.
Allenby made a 10-foot birdie putt at the short 16th to keep him in contention and the players were level heading to the 18th before Woods squeezed through with a last-hole birdie, coming out of a greenside bunker to seven feet.
But there is no way to carve out venture capital from the bill, without risking buy-out shops wiggling their way through that hole too.
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The dangerous-looking Watmough extended the lead when a delightful pass by Orford created a hole in the Leeds defence and the second-rower got through to score.
After crawling through a small, pitch-black hole in the debris, making their way past sharp metal parts, pieces of office paper, and pulverized concrete, they use listening devices and night-vision cameras to search for anyone alive.
's Amplatzer is a fabric-mesh patch threaded through catheters to plug the hole.
But the hosts hit back immediately as Nick Robinson's inside pass tricked the Bath line to send brother Jamie through a hole, the centre treating supporting back-row Molitika with a perfect offload that saw the Tongan lope under the posts.
You can drive a big Google Earth van through the hole to be opened up by future search-technology opportunities.
Jim Furyk, never known for flashy play, had only two bogeys through two rounds, until he double-bogeyed the 15th hole.
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The doctors rushed the baby into surgery, where they discovered he was infected with MRSA -- and the infection was so severe that it had eaten a hole through his lung.
Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie , have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1, 800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2, 000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1, 500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest.
What they've done before the commercial versions is using, like, five-gallon buckets of this drill hole in the bottom, so they can plant through, put some dirt in and hang it up.
Without firing a shot, they stole 120 packages of diamonds that had just been loaded into the hold of a Fokker-100 regional jet bound for Zurich, then escaped back through a hole cut in the perimeter fence.
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The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
Fly-half Giteau conjured a superb third with a double dummy before steaming through a gaping hole and converting his own try.
Radiology pioneer Kurt Amplatz spent his career developing a way to treat babies born with heart defects by threading a Goretex-like patch through an artery to the heart and then using it to seal a hole.
After warming up in a Finnish sauna -- a national tradition -- guests don socks for a 50m, often naked run through the snow to a manmade hole in the ice, where they can safely use a step ladder to dip in the icy lake waters below.
Self-assembly was very useful in eye-of-the-needle problems in cases where you had to get something very large through a very small hole and Leuthardt wondered if it might be helpful in minimally invasive surgery.
Ten years from now you will probably have forgotten the name of that authentic hole-in-wall local bistro you found, or the off-the-beaten path residential neighborhood you strolled through, but you will remember that gondola ride.
Always a tight shot through ever encroaching statuesque Georgia pines, the tee has been pushed back and the par-four hole measures an extra 60 yards compared to the 405-yarder the players faced in the early 1990s.
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