• Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.

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  • "If I could do it again, I would tone the water stuff down some buyers who looked at the house didn't like the feeling that they were walking on water, " says Mr. McKinney.

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  • The marathon, road cycling, triathlon, open water swimming and race walking are the events most at risk.

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  • Some zinger about Jesus walking on water, perhaps, admonishing me to drop my sail and become a windsurfer of men.

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  • It was actually pretty cool walking on water.

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  • That will mean girls will spend longer walking to fetch water which could encourage them to drop out of school and bear children earlier.

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  • But he has a clear advantage over Booker T: he supposedly performed miracles, including walking on the water after the French had put him on a ship to send him into exile.

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  • If you do venture outside of this den of blissful comfort, Costa Smeralda offers a variety of activities: snorkelling in the clearest of waters, renting a yacht, playing golf, kayaking, water skiing and taking a walking tour of the colourful buildings in the resort town of Porto Cervo, arm-in-arm with your newlywed.

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  • Aid workers report that dozens of children have died, exhausted by weeks of walking in search of water.

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  • Talented people may think that their brainpower allows them to walk upon water, but in reality many are walking on the stones that their employers have conveniently placed beneath them.

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  • "The Trusty" began with a prisoner walking up a road, a water bucket in his hand.

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  • John the Baptist, also about 8, is carefully walking barefoot among the shavings with water to bathe the wound.

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  • Even so, as we began to hear the sound of gently tinkling water, Dhit invited us to remove our walking boots and change into our sandals: it was time to get wet.

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  • The mother walking hours each day to find clean water for her children, she's counting on you.

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  • Now on any given day, Canavan can be found with his guide dog Khara walking up and down his street carrying water jugs to his Busy Lizzies and hollyhocks.

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  • Walking opportunities abound in the spectacular Cuillin Hills, and water lovers can go sea kayaking around the craggy coastline.

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  • We place a high value on customer interaction, so as a standard practice we have flight attendants walking through the cabin every 20 or 30 minutes offering water to every customer.

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  • So while the stigma around foreclosure has dissipated and indeed more homeowners are willing to consider walking away from their houses, people with families who are under water on their primary residence are still less likely to do so, according to the survey.

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  • It wants to know how much you make in salary and dividends, the time you leave for work, the number of bedrooms in your house and whether there is a toilet, how much you pay in electricity bills and for water and sewer services, whom you work for, whether you have trouble walking or lifting things and on and on.

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  • Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps.

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  • Welch, who was already walking 3.5 miles a day roundtrip to work, started taking water aerobics three times a week and swimming again competitively.

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  • If a break from the water is what you're after, the hotel is near a golf course and within walking distance of Lagos' historic city center, where you can settle in on one of its many restaurant patios for fresh fish.

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  • You can feel explosions of various magnitudes, sense a person walking behind you or wind rustling through trees, feel the sensation of wheels splashing through varying depths of water, discern between a V8 and a V6 engine.

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