Word: pit
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...Philippe Marquis, who leads the French archaeological team, points to a 26-ft.-deep (8 m deep) pit carved from the hill that exposes a cross section riddled with holes - like an ant farm pressed between panes of glass. He shows how looters dug wells, then tunneled horizontally when a promising layer was reached. (Looters, like archaeologists, know to look for signs such as ash or brick flooring for evidence of human habitation.) One such gallery has collapsed, so that it now seems just a jagged scar interrupting the smooth transition of history's layers. "It's like...
...looks to capture the ECAC regular-season title this weekend with two clashes at Bright Hockey Center. Tonight will see the Crimson (15-9-3, 14-4-2 ECAC) face off against No. 7 St. Lawrence (21-8-3, 15-4-1), while Saturday’s action will pit Harvard against conference foe Clarkson...
That there is money to be made on that fact not been lost on RNL BIO, the company that Lee and his team do research for, which sold a $50,000 cloned Pit Bull Terrier to an American client last year. And RNL is not alone on this commercial frontier. Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, another Seoul lab run by Hwang Woo Suk who led Snuppy's cloning at SNU but was later shunned by the international scientific community for fabricating research on human embryos, made headlines in early February for cloning a Labrador named "Lancey" for a Florida couple...
...Updike’s playful side will forever be memorialized in one 1953 incident that pit The Crimson and The Lampoon against one another...
...plutonium "pit" of a nuclear weapon - the heart of its extraordinary power - suffers radioactive decay, losing power and building up impurities, over time. There is concern that aging pits may fail to detonate properly, or perhaps...