• But reinjection is expensive, and in Ecuador Texaco simply dumped the liquid into swimming-pool-size pits.

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  • In the last three Olympics, it narrowed the gap between its swimming-medal toll and America's.

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  • He has given up his swimming-filled Twitter and Facebook pages, as well as his usual news sites.

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  • But after the second session, I feel I have some control, and am actually swimming -- getting somewhere.

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  • Then Tony opens the box from Kim's, revealing two huge crabs, swimming - nay, drowning - in a fiery pink hot pepper sauce.

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  • Many thought him lucky to keep his job last year, when he cavorted in a swimming-pool with his girlfriend for a glossy magazine.

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  • Some of them are going to be able to take swimming -- skimming equipment of the sort that Admiral Allen discussed and actually place it on the boat.

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  • He has excelled in numerous Ironman swimming-biking-running competitions.

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  • Float silently down rivers, past trees and wildflowers (canoes are also available from Mutinondo Wilderness Lodge for the swimming-averse), and you will feel as though you are somewhere that has been untouched for hundreds of years.

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  • He had earlier said that the empty seats in the first week of the Games - which were seen at a number of events, including tennis, football, gymnastics and swimming - had threatened to alienate Britons who had been unable to get hold of tickets.

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  • Whereas home-owners in Los Angeles and San Francisco must carefully watch how much water they consume if they want to avoid a stiff surcharge, Sacramento's people have no limit on the amounts they use to wash their cars, fill their swimming-pools and keep their lawns lushly green.

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  • The United Downs tip is 15m (49ft) deep and has a volume of 250, 000 cubic metres (8.8m cubic ft) - the equivalent of 125 Olympic-sized swimming pools - but the council predicts it will be full by 2010.

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  • The world's most powerful neutrino telescope, IceCube, uses Antarctic ice as the detector volume, with electronic equipment sunk throughout a cubic kilometer of ice -- enough water to fill a million swimming pools -- to detect signals from neutrinos interacting with the ice.

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  • On 15 February this year, 2012 DA14 - an asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool - raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi).

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  • We feel that we are better at whatever we do--driving, day-trading, swimming with sharks--than other people are at the same endeavors.

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  • It sports the nicest corporate campus I've ever seen, with an Olympic-size swimming pool, child-care centers and a 35-hour workweek.

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  • And for freshly minted high school grads, it means the carefree days of sunshine and swimming pools--not to mention home-cooked meals--are numbered.

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  • They found animals with tumours were less motivated to try to escape when submitted to a swimming test - a condition similar to depression in humans.

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  • In the men's Para S8 100m freestyle , Fraser edged between gold medallist Austin and fellow Australian Blake Cochrane to earn silver for Scotland in a British record 1:00.77, with David Roberts - 11 times a Paralympic champion - fourth for Wales, swimming against less-disabled athletes.

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  • But once inside you find a 1750 capacity car-park, an Olympic-sized swimming complex and a multi-purpose sports hall.

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  • Amenities at her disposal there include three riding arenas, a competition-size swimming pool and a 99-seat performing arts community center.

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  • During the summer many people were rescued after getting cut off by the tide and activities such as coasteering - swimming, jumping and scrabbling around sections of coastlines - saw Brixham Coastguard called out to a variety of incidents.

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  • Other features at the new centre include a 10m diving facility in the main eight-lane swimming pool, while the five-lane community pool has a moveable floor to enable a range of classes to take place, from special needs and baby groups to aqua aerobics.

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  • She visits the Brain Science Lab at Indiana University, which studies the hard- swimming members of the US Masters: men and women who swim 3, 500-5, 000 metres three to five times a week, sometimes for decades on end.

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  • Indoor skiing in the desert is just one more eccentric, nature-defying contradiction in gilt-edged, Dubai, which also boasts air-conditioned golf, chilled swimming pools, over-the-top resorts and scores of skyscrapers, including one under construction at 160 stories that is to be the world's tallest.

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  • It has a whitewashed al fresco restaurant that specializes in Mediterranean fare, a night-lit swimming pool surrounded with beanbags, 23 air-conditioned beachfront bungalows with Balinese-style outdoor bathrooms and a two-bedroom villa with plunge pool set on a hill.

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  • And if you just can't wait to be king, get the royal treatment right on the resort's grounds, where you'll enjoy hotel perks like full kitchens in each villa, big-screen TVs, 13 outdoor heated swimming pools, screened-in patios, 13 hot tubs, a fitness centre and a Disney movie theatre, all overlooking beautiful Lake Wilson.

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  • On the rare occasions I've visited spas, I'd gone for the full-meal deal massage, sauna, swimming pool, piped-in new-age music.

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  • Seen at ground level in early morning light, it can look beautiful--shimmering, lakelike, as if fish were swimming underneath its blue-white surface.

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  • Few 2012 Olympic hopefuls have received more attention this year than Janet Evans, the long-retired 40-year-old swimming gold medalist who is attempting a comeback in the 400- and 800-meter events.

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