One day Marty came down and saw his brother sitting in the first row behind the outfield, his scorecard curled into a cone, talking out loud.

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Liam, 21, found the huge hole in the road near his home in Cork after a friend put a traffic cone into it.

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Before we head into the comparison though, here are a few statistics from the Cone survey.

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Dr. Hammer and his team spring into action, pulling the shark on board with a traffic-cone orange gurney.

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The result is that the atoms interact with the beam, are drawn into it, and settle at the tip of the cone a phenomenon known as dipole trapping.

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For the first approach, he shapes a wettened cone of clay on a fast-spinning wheel, gradually turning a small dimple in the top into a bowl shape, which he smooths with a deerskin cloth and releases from its base with one quick draw of a taut wire.

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