Word: dig
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...thin atmosphere allowed most of that water to vanish into space. What was left retreated into the subsoil or, significantly, contracted into the poles. Phoenix, a stationary lander in the style of the old Viking ships that touched down on the planet in 1976, will get a chance to dig into that frozen polar rind...
...toll for Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake reached 19,509 Thursday, and the State Council said that it could reach 50,000, according to the state-run Xinhua News Service. Now several dams in the area are reported to have severe cracks, raising the threat that towns trying to dig out could be hit by floodwaters...
...thing I have learned during my field work is that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, with not one exception, takes himself or herself a bit too seriously. Better to take the long view, and dig beneath the surface of careful annunciation and polished rhetoric. You will quickly discover that the musings of our classmates are often by turns pretentious, frivolous, and absurd...
...Click also mentioned the possibility of adding hands-on field experiences, like an archaeological dig, to complement a student’s fall or spring courses...
...Thought still doesn’t understand how to craft a narrative or an engaging rap persona, and the band sounds like it’s tired of compensating for his weaknesses. White people—or at least the white people constructed by the blogosphere—will dig the dime-store ghetto voyeurism that Black Thought peddles on “Rising Down,” but the only thing truly authentic about this release is its dreariness. —Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...