Earlier this month, a 52-year-old fisherman on Vancouver Island was badly mauled after a black bear swam over to his boat, scrambled on board and began attacking him, refusing to let go despite being repeatedly struck with a gaff, beaten with a hammer and stabbed with various sharp objects until a rescuer finally managed to slit its throat with a filleting knife.

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The process, which uses a desktop machine similar to a slit-lamp, is simple and painless.

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Nevertheless, Jennifer Lopez showed up on stage in a dress slit all the way to her hip.

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It takes you to a tall slit in the outermost building, where an offset door makes you turn right into an entry area, avoiding an immediate, direct full view of the interior.

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Already thin and minimal, the pier was then slit in its upper reaches to create a vertical groove that allowed the two resulting sides to flex and absorb horizontal deflections from movement of the roadway.

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It is fed from a slit in the groin into the neck to clear out the vessel and then is removed.

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Every week in a tiny, humid room (nicknamed The Swamp) at the nonprofit Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Kappe and his colleagues slit open between 2, 000 and 3, 000 mosquitoes to collect the microscopic parasites that cause malaria.

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Slit open the bag and mist the contents with water, and pearl oyster mushrooms will begin to grow, until they are spilling out the side of the box, reaching their full-grown size in about 10 days.

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