Over the next five years, the team will use a long, hollow, rotating drill to cut and retrieve a cylinder of ice roughly 12 centimetres across.

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While Woods ended a 30-month wait for a PGA Tour title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, he then struggled to maintain that form as he finished 40th at the Masters, missed the cut at Quail Hollow and then tied for 40th at the Players Championship.

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The document's pledge to cut spending and provide stability simultaneously rings hollow in this respect.

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Gore's father could find poetry in the hardship stories of his early days in Possum Hollow, recalling droughts so bad that they had to cut down trees to let cattle suck moisture from the leaves, but most of the romance was in the telling, not the living.

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