Lately, the mercury has crawled up into the 40s, turning hard-packed ice into an endless brown sea of mud.

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Even at a distance, the brilliant blue of packed ice glimmers.

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There's nothing wrong with that when it's been packed in ice.

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In a four-hour masterpiece, Sale packed two ice cream sundaes and, by one teammate's estimate, around 30 bags of potato chips into one of the skinniest bodies the sport has ever seen.

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Both cities progressed rapidly from manufacturing to industrial to financial capitals, and in the process, voraciously abetted by the appetites of their citizenry, both killed their oysters (Paris, the third great oyster metropolis, protected its beds far more successfully, and to this day shuckers presiding over crates of oysters packed in ice remain a common sight on the city's corners in winter).

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The next week will be jam-packed with on-ice play, as every day features three or four games.

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She was taken to 28-bed Queen of Peace Hospital in nearby New Prague, where an emergency team packed her body in blue ice bags before loading her on a helicopter to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis about 40 miles away.

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The 1, 400-person town of Nederland gained worldwide notoriety in 1994 when local authorities discovered the body of Norwegian Bredo Morstoel packed in a steel coffin filled with dry ice.

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Comets are made up of water, ice, dust and other elements and minerals, all loosely packed together, Battams said.

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