Obviously, there are a number of issues that will surface throughout just this week alone that are also on the lame duck calendar.

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That would leave a small, mobile craft that could maneuver on thrusters alone, hover near the surface, and lower the rover down.

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The song seems to uncoil when Finn and Barnes hit the bridge, with ideas evaporating off the surface faster than they can be spotted, let alone captured.

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Half of the atoms in a five-nanometre particle are on its surface, which can make it many times more toxic than expected by weight alone.

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Petrobras alone is targeting up to 50 bn barrels of oil 190 miles offshore over a mile below the ocean surface and under three miles of rock.

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