While some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for BP, which has hired boats to skim oil off the surface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.

CNN: Allen: 'Our first goal is to do no harm' in Gulf

Female sturgeon don't become sexually mature until their 20s and spawn about every four years, so the spawning season, in which they surface from the depths to lay their eggs on rocky shores, is an extremely important time for the species.

WSJ: Standing Guard for the Sturgeon

With tact and care, the movie digs into all the subjects that lay concealed below the surface when Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk were filming their own melodramas in the nineteen-fifties.

NEWYORKER: Far from Heaven

Because peregrine falcons don't build nests but lay their eggs on a flat surface, officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started protecting the eggs several years ago by building nesting boxes on the George Washington and the other bridges the authority operates.

WSJ: 4 falcon chicks living on NY-NJ bridge are banded

Lay the lamb out on a work surface with the fattier side down.

WSJ: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen? Not With the Right Plan

He said he had identified holes and road surface cracks mainly where service companies had dug up roads to fix or lay pipes and cabling.

BBC: Reading Half Marathon route potholes 'worst ever'

Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.

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