Rather than gushing from the end of a pipe, pollution trickles from front lawns, city streets and parking lots.

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Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.

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Neighbor Michael Creel said Dykes put the plastic pipe underground from the bunker to the end of his driveway so he could hear if anyone drove up to his gate.

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The pair put on 62 for the ninth wicket, but the end was nigh when Ali and Pipe again combined to remove Kerr.

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The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project, or SPICE, is a British academic consortium that seeks to mimic the actions of volcanoes like Pinatubo by pumping particles of sulfur dioxide, or similar reflective chemicals, into the stratosphere through a twelve-mile-long pipe held aloft by a balloon at one end and tethered, at the other, to a boat anchored at sea.

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According to the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, secondhand smoke is the combination of two types of smoke that is produced when burning tobacco: the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker.

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It is the end of an era for the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which is making its last performance under that name at Celtic Connections.

BBC: Strathclyde Police Pipe Band reaches the end of an era

The pipe band, which can trace its links back to the 19th Century, will end on 31 March 2013.

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