And they later organize and wreak havoc on their aboveground counterparts.
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What we're seeing is a pyramid: most of it is aboveground.
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But not all of the massive estate's features are visible aboveground.
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The Amargosa is protected along an aboveground length of 15 miles.
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While all this chaos ensues aboveground, something equally sinister is happening below.
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Aboveground decomposition, its advocates say, is attractive for ecological and financial reasons.
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Overhead, a snaking maze of aboveground iron pipes pumps out whistling steam.
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Must be nice, Ulysses S. Grant, up in your fancy aboveground tomb.
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We have to go aboveground to Parkville for lunch; there's no restaurant here.
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A hlessi is a rabbit caught aboveground, wandering with no warren or hole.
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Closing the aboveground part of the subway, which will start at 4 a.m.
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But the aboveground versions are not imitation diamonds, like cubic zirconia or moissanite.
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In New York City, all aboveground subway service was suspended as of 4 a.m.
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"New Orleans is famous for their aboveground graves because of possible flooding," Nava said.
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He's been working, aboveground instead of below it ever since — just not in Hazard.
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Under was built aboveground on a barge over a period of about six months.
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The family ventures aboveground on occasion to use the toilet in a nearby shop.
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I needed this book of beauty below to balance the pain we're witnessing aboveground.
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Shaped like the letter H, it has two aboveground stories and a garden level.
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Here is the transit situation: • Subways: Aboveground train service was restored around 6 p.m.
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Some were macabre, like the dozens of coffins that were nudged aboveground in Texas.
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Incredibly, messages about what's happening aboveground can be communicated below the surface to neighboring relatives.
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He first suggests a visit to the company's aboveground Wambo mine in New South Wales.
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In the Amazon, the largest aboveground carbon stock on earth, Brazil has shown what's possible.
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The pipelines will be costly; but also far harder to sabotage than conventional aboveground systems.
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The aboveground tracks of the F and G trains, which ran noisily nearby, concerned Mrs.
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One focuses on Mischka's harrowing and unparalleled aboveground eyewitness account of the firebombing of Dresden.
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In 2009, Gregory found Aboveground Animation, a collective started by artist-comedian chimera Casey Jane Ellison.
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If he opened the window he could touch the tops of its branches, eight floors aboveground.
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Indeed, landlords ask more than $240 a square foot for aboveground storefronts in the immediate area.
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People are drawn to the idea of aboveground decomposition mainly for environmental reasons, Mr. Pedersen said.
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The $225 billion, aboveground Expo project is not the only piece of the transit transformation unfolding here.
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An estimated 500,000 people could have to leave the area in the next century to stay aboveground.
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There are plants that lose their leaves, or even their entire aboveground stems in preparation for winter.
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He studied how to avoid depression (add more lights), prevent cliques (rotate chores), and simulate life aboveground.
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But the blizzard over the weekend was a reminder of just how much of the system runs aboveground.
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An aboveground volcano might release such compounds into the air, far from the reach of most terrestrial life.
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And this conference was the first time the growing community would leave their online forums and come aboveground.
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He noted that several ambitious public transit projects are underway that would ease congestion both underground and aboveground.
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Commuters climb the stairs to the aboveground train, and crowds congregate on sidewalks where vendors hawk their wares.
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"As well as the flooding and the impact on pipelines, there's underground and aboveground storage tanks," she said.
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For only the second time, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shut down the subway's aboveground stations for a snowstorm.
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As Bonaire has become a year-round cruise destination, the island's aboveground resources are at the breaking point.
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Most people were very much of the mind that this would be much better if this could be aboveground.
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As the train emerged aboveground an hour later with a view of the water, Mr. Crowley's eyes lit up.
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He is a big promoter of aboveground rail and believes the city's investments in the subway system are misguided.
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Because of a slight incline in the terrain, it has two aboveground stories in front and three in back.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will suspend aboveground subway service in New York City on Tuesday beginning at 4 a.m.
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They trudge back aboveground, on one condition: Orpheus must not look back to see if she is following him.
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In the mid-303th century, radioactive carbon isotopes were spewed into the atmosphere as a result of aboveground nuclear tests.
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"This aboveground work is so much more pleasant than the hot air down in a coal mine," Mr. Yang said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo announced that all aboveground subway service in New York City would be suspended as of 230 a.m.
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Subway service in New York City was curtailed, with the Metropolitan Transportation Agency ordering all aboveground tracks and stations closed.
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The majority packed into older trams and buses aboveground—dreaming, perhaps, of the day they could finally buy a car.
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Manhattanites may not realize how much of the subway is aboveground, or how many people rely on buses, Mr. Raskin said.
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"Our job is to not only keep the city safe but make it safer aboveground and below ground," the mayor said.
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And when I get on, I get off way before my stop, just to get up aboveground sometimes, just to walk.
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Persephone spends six months aboveground living the good life of summer and song before returning for six months below with Hades.
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And yet in 2000, as the peat fires raged aboveground and below, Suhadi could see only that none of that mattered.
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Then there's all the bus and car exhaust burping aboveground, in addition to who knows what other kinds of air pollution.
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Finding and drilling oil requires elaborate modelling—both of underground geologies and messy aboveground geopolitics—to make money over the long-term.
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"Nobody is looking for you," he chides her, estimating it could be a year or more before it's safe to go aboveground.
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The aboveground Trinity Test in New Mexico in July 1945, which ushered in the nuclear age, had a yield of 20 kilotons.
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If you melted down the world's entire aboveground stock of around 553,000 tons of gold, it would form a 72-foot cube.
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Hewitt: If we have a look at the 190,000 tons of stock of gold aboveground, the lion's share of it's in jewelry.
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About 1,000 workers are also in the Fort McMurray area, repairing damage to electrical wires and components, and aboveground equipment for pipelines.
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They declined to give the cost of the updates, but said it would not have been possible in a pricier aboveground apartment.
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But the powerful aboveground nuclear bomb tests of the mid-21958s created even more carbon 19833 isotopes out of that atmospheric nitrogen.
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The wind toppled a construction crane, knocked down streetlights on a central road and blocked an aboveground Metro line with fallen trees.
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They can also double as aboveground furniture at home, disguised with cushions or blankets, until it is time for their primary purpose.
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While the fancy pools of pop culture belie a fundamental emptiness, she has a wonderful time splashing around in aboveground plastic versions.
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While the fancy pools of pop culture belie a fundamental emptiness, she has a wonderful time splashing around in aboveground plastic versions.
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There are some aboveground pipes in European sports stadiums, and Randers, Denmark has a beer pipe that carries beer to some bars.
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And when downtown galleries discovered the medium in the early 1980s, Dondi was among the first aerosol artists to achieve aboveground success.
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But oil companies are still assessing the damage to the electrical network, the aboveground buildings and the pipelines that ship Fort McMurray's production.
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All-too-familiar problems with New York City's overloaded subways have now made their way aboveground to the city's newest transit option: ferries.
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The P.K.K., and by extension the H.D.P., which is often seen as the aboveground counterpart to the insurgents, is losing support among Kurds.
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I'd want to build up my team and do this aboveground like a normal business and take care of people from start to finish.
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In the tropics, intact forests hold 40 percent of the aboveground forest carbon even though they make up only 20 of those latitudes' forests.
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And yet, you'd be forgiven if you didn't notice: The sun continues to needle the eyes aboveground, and the subway is still steamy below.
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To accommodate the shift toward cremation, many cemeteries are building columbaria, aboveground structures with niches that can hold hundreds or even thousands of urns.
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And given that Orpheus is heard to lament the "cold and dark" world aboveground, are things really that much worse in the realm below?
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Crews had to blast the bedrock and remove all the spoils while a busy, dense neighborhood aboveground tried to pretend it wasn't under siege.
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But another house, with four bedrooms, was available on one of the neighborhood's cul-de-sacs, which back up to the aboveground Q train.
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Washington Metrorail trains running aboveground have been restricted to 35 miles per hour because of the excessive heat Monday, the city's transit agency announced.
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You could travel all the way to the citadel — the great medieval palace that towers over the Old City — without going aboveground, he said.
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The aboveground rails that crisscross the city are increasingly being seen as a way to alleviate some of New York's most pressing transportation problems.
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Oleksandr, the platoon commander, stares at his laptop as it streams live footage of the fighting aboveground from a camera mounted atop the position.
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It would be much better if we could do an official, aboveground trial to see if this is a good idea in the US. Right.
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It was the first time the Metropolitan Transportation Authority halted service to all of the aboveground stations while maintaining service to almost all underground stations.
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But underground lines are far more expensive to construct and maintain than aboveground lines, and lower costs would translate into lower electricity rates for consumers.
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Underground fire pits make it easier to contain the flames, as aboveground come with greater risk of leaping flames and flying embers, according to the site.
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Those clearly separate rooms with defined thresholds between them suggest indoor space more than outdoor space, underground rather than aboveground, a designed environment rather than nature.
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Today, aboveground crypts at Trinity can run as high as $60,000 for a single coffin, while niches for a single urn range from $1,900 to $6,500.
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Aboveground fences and sections of concrete wall run along and through parts of the West Bank, a legacy of Palestinian suicide bombings during the second intifada.
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More than a third of the subway runs aboveground, and subway riders have long been able to use their cellphones on those parts of the system.
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Her hospital was built in underground tunnels to protect it from the constant bombings and attacks aboveground and came to be known locally as the cave.
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Still not fully finished, the 54-kilometre (34 mile) Moscow Central Ring - an aboveground metro railway connecting the suburbs of the capital - opened for passengers on Saturday.
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Like the Wilsons early in the film, and the other aboveground characters, many Americans are unaware that there is another reality for prisoners and their loved ones.
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As the fire spread to up to 50 of the Torch Tower's 79 aboveground floors, residents of nearby buildings posted pictures of the blaze on social media.
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In my waking, aboveground life, I often worry for no reason; here — notwithstanding the relative safety of today's New York — I probably should worry but do not.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subways, made the decision to close aboveground service in the hopes of keeping the majority of the system running.
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They learned that the North Korean state news media used different names when Mr. Kim visited the aboveground and underground facilities there, Dr. Lewis said by email.
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Andrew M. Cuomo said on Saturday that service to aboveground subways and to Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Railroad could be restored on Sunday, weather permitting.
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While Ghost Ship was underground, with little to no safety oversight, as an officially converted space, the Vulcan had long been aboveground in the eyes of the city.
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When he returned to the house later, he said, he saw that their 10,000-gallon aboveground pool had been lifted and dashed against the side of the house.
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For now, the only visible sign that the freezing has begun are silver-dollar-size patches of ice that have formed on top of the aboveground, silver pipes.
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Back aboveground, you'll find a massive vestibule of stone staircases and observation balconies, a gold leaf-coated salon reminiscent of Versailles, and an equally opulent 1,900 seat theater.
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I drove past a giant Tin Man, the first indication of the campus's fairy-tale aesthetic, and into guest parking, in one of the campus's few aboveground lots.
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This seems like a strange moment to be writing about "the deep state" with the country entering a new phase of open and obvious aboveground chaos and instability.
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In an effort to keep the ancient lineage of the orchard from disappearing, the scionwood — cuttings from recent aboveground growth — was grafted onto new blight-resistant root stock.
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Subway riders would pay a dime to get onto a train, but if they transferred to an aboveground streetcar, they had to pay an extra nickel to exit.
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He knows that Uber has already transformed aboveground transportation here in New York City, where getting a cab during rush hour used to be harder than freshman-year algebra.
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I think I used to do that before, and Aboveground Animation made me remember that my personality is an asset, not something to polish or hide in my paintings.
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Prices for the last piece of real estate that any New Yorker will ever own — a cemetery plot or an aboveground crypt — have also climbed significantly over the years.
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About 100 feet (30 meters) aboveground, the woman engaged in a four-hour standoff with police before two officers climbed up to the base and went over to her.
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A New York miracle: The three people in the small plane above were spared a probably fatal crash on Sunday night — by getting tangled up in aboveground utility cables.
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In 180 cities, some 31 million people globally leave their cars at home each day and ride on bus rapid transit systems, a sort of aboveground subway built of buses.
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In the Bronx, most subway tracks are aboveground, providing significant vantage points, but the borough's bridge and tunnel connections to Manhattan and Queens could be troublesome should Manhattan retreat north.
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For nearly 17 years, the station has sat unused — achingly missing from the New York City subway map — even as a new sprawling World Trade Center complex has sprouted aboveground.
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It said that the entire site would be closed after further removal of aboveground structures and personnel, adding that North Korea was committed to building "a nuclear-free peaceful world."
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Old people sit in front of their houses and stare, a woman falls forward over the wheel of her car and dies, elaborate aboveground crypts lie as if in wait.
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A day after visiting the new stations, Mr. Cuomo was aboveground on Tuesday, standing in front of the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown to trumpet progress toward a 2018 opening.
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Roaring past New Orleans's aboveground cemeteries and homes still dilapidated from Hurricane Katrina, past new housing projects and around the city's infamous potholes, the women receive a rowdy, happy welcome.
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In 20003, a nail-bitingly dry year that followed several pitiful winters, Santa Fe's aboveground reservoirs dipped precipitously low, and the city was draining groundwater through its wells at frightening rates.
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Eight riders and a train operator were killed and dozens were injured when one train rear-ended another as it idled near an aboveground Red Line station on the city's outskirts.
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Service had been suspended during the storm on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad, as well as the aboveground routes of the subway and on the Staten Island Railway.
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And it's unclear how much of her early memories Red even retains once she settles into her aboveground life; it seems quite possible she's repressing her memories rather than purposely hiding them.
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A 333 study from the Edison Electric Institute, an investor-owned utility consortium, found that it costs $18,2200 per mile for rural and $22015 million per mile for urban aboveground power lines.
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Aboveground you may have seen me acting the gentleman, opening doors for others with a special paper towel I carry in my front left pocket for just such a momentous occasion. No?
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Cluster bombs are different; they open aboveground, and a typical bomb, the CBU-24, ejects 665 bomblets, similar to hand grenades, which are engineered to wound and kill people with ball bearings.
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Just behind the structure, and included in the sale, is a 1,100-square-foot carriage house, with two more bedrooms, a full bath and a deck that holds a small aboveground pool.
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But in fact, as dangerous as that work was, most of our casualties were aboveground, when we engaged in the other part of our job: finding and disarming mines and booby traps.
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Regenerative agriculture is a farming technique that aims to reverse the effects of climate change by capturing carbon in soil and aboveground biomass, which ultimately increases biodiversity, enriches soils and improves watersheds.
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A bumpy track runs through the property, which is scattered with cages, crates, nets, buoys, machine parts, grounded vessels, a cluster of aboveground pools, and shotgun shacks extending to the water's edge.
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A team of professors and dozens of students from Hunter College studied subway behavior and found that riders were more likely to use mobile devices aboveground, where they have had reliable service.
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Mr. Gean, 63, creates oversize junk-art sculptures that are scattered around the property, and they have installed a party room, outdoor dance floor, aboveground swimming pool, swing set, trampoline and playhouse.
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For months after the first trip, I spent time in university library reading up on how to use raw material to synthesize LSD, initially from aboveground sources and then later from underground sources.
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Most of the residential units in them are rented out for 500 to 900 renminbi a month, or roughly $77 to $138 — about one-third of what it would cost to live aboveground.
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While the three floors of underground galleries delve deep into the suffering and struggle of African Americans throughout history, the aboveground floors offer a celebration of all they have contributed to American culture.
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Israeli military officials are being understandably cagey about how the new underground barrier will work, other than to say it will also include an aboveground section and incorporate layers of advanced technological systems.
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Many commuters were thrilled to learn that cell service was now widespread — at 277 stations in a system that extends across 472 stations, many of which are aboveground and already had cell service.
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Previous studies have shown that plants can communicate with each other by sending chemical signals through the soil, but the extent to which these messages are influenced by aboveground physical events are poorly understood.
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To learn how the bedbug has evolved and spread, the New York team took DNA sample swabs from 1,400 city locations, including subway cars, turnstiles, ticket vending kiosks and aboveground places such as parks.
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Subspotting will let you know which stations along the way have cell and Wi-Fi service (most of the ones in Manhattan) and which don't (Brooklyn looks pretty dark until the train goes aboveground).
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It's a grassy expanse buffering the main thoroughfares of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Adeline Street from which the BART tracks, positioned aboveground in Oakland, dip underground as they enter Berkeley city limits.
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Aboveground composting, through a mortuary process that requires no burial or burning of remains, is a new category without regulation about how it should be done or what can be done with the compost.
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Russell Lord, NOMA's Freeman family curator of photographs, said the character of the museum's photography collection was fitting, given that it resides in a city known for ghost tours, aboveground tombs and funeral parades.
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From 1945 to 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union detonated over 400 nuclear bombs aboveground in a very bad, no good, uh, weapons-measuring contest that the world never wants to happen again.
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The rabbits in the movie had additional symbolism behind them, but what we know for sure is that whenever the Tethers' aboveground counterparts ate a meal of some sort, they were given rabbit to eat.
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The couple gazed at the sky over White Sands, New Mexico; witnessed the alien Gulf Oil storage tanks in Port Arthur, Texas; explored aboveground cemeteries in New Orleans; and spent time in Whitman's beloved Brooklyn.
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They were created generations ago by the U.S. government in an effort to control the people aboveground, but were subsequently abandoned in those tunnels when it became clear the experiment wasn't producing the desired results.
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Last week, Keith Wyman's two-year-old son Cody climbed what he thought was a childproof gate into his family's aboveground pool in Attleboro, Massachusetts, within "two seconds," Wyman told NBC 10 News on Monday.
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Standing next to a wall bearing a plaque honoring her, he recalled how the radio woes compounded the fears of families of transit officers, who could not talk to their aboveground counterparts in an emergency.
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Consider that while the Texas Medical Center was able to maintain continuous care for its patients, thanks to dozens of floodgates and aboveground generators, the hospital became largely inaccessible when surrounding streets turned into rivers.
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Maybe that's why the silents we do have — particularly the early, pre-1920s ones — can seem like missives from an aboveground Atlantis, satin-silver remnants of a civilization that's alluringly alien yet also recognizably human.
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For example, in the 1950's, scientists around the world were wondering how aboveground nuclear testing affected public health, but the official message from the US government was that the risks from fallout exposure were minimal.
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Crude oil, condensate, naphtha, base and extract oils are stored at the facility, which has a total crude oil storage capacity of approximately 24 million barrels in approximately 130 aboveground storage tanks, according to the company.
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I'm pretty convinced I'd have a much easier time with online dating if my location radius could include the fiery abyss below rather than just the aboveground cesspool of Los Angeles my Tinder is currently limited to.
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While on its deregulatory binge last year, the state almost entirely rolled back aboveground chemical-tank safety standards enacted in response to the Elk River contamination disaster of 2014 – which made the water of 300,000 people undrinkable.
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That's why she's stuck at St. John's, selling aboveground pools and doing community service as part of a court-mandated rehabilitation, instead of in her classroom at Blue Ridge High, a rough school that she nonetheless adores.
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Looking out the window of an aboveground train, the rumble of the tracks jolting and bumping and crashing the side of your forehead into the window, the way eyes try to keep up with a moving landscape.
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Mike Owen Benediktsson, an assistant sociology professor involved in the study, said hardly any riders talked on their phones, even when they had service on trains running aboveground, because of the unwritten etiquette rules of the subway.
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But since then, he has invested more than $100 million into the company, which employs more than 80 workers to design and construct underground tunnels that Musk hopes will create new transportation networks to alleviate aboveground traffic.
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Weed strains aren't typically the way we chart the passage of time in rap songs, but, increasingly, as weed becomes more aboveground, it might be, the same way clothing or alcohol brands have been in the past.
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It was fun to look at — the Museum of Modern Art in New York has that version in its collection — but few users loved it, in part because the Vignelli map didn't relate the underground to the aboveground.
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Similar limestone formations in Vietnam and Thailand are home to novel species of fish, lizards, crabs and insects that adapt to life inside caves by becoming pale, blind and wingless, often looking very different from their aboveground brethren.
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At a defunct chemical waste processing facility in Indiana, for instance, Gorsuch's EPA allowed a company to pay only a third of the cost of cleaning up aboveground pollution, and then granted it immunity from liability for belowground waste.
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Jay Inslee signed legislation on Wednesday allowing the practice of "aboveground decomposition," making Washington the first state in the nation — and likely the first place in the world, legal experts said — to explicitly allow human remains to become compost.
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The soil told of local pollution, indicating the use of municipal refuse incinerators, which peaked in 1937, and offering clues of events farther afield, such as evidence of the aboveground nuclear weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s.
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We created a network of aboveground pipes that reduced the spread of disease, cut the cost of a jerrycan of potable water (about five gallons) by 60 percent and prevented local cartels from siphoning off water to sell to private vendors.
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This involves blocking GPS from locating property with a jamming signal, removing homes from the grid, and hiring architects to conceal buildings — whether by designing an underground home or by using a "stealth concealment design" for aboveground properties, Allen reported.
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The plan, to be unveiled on Thursday in the mayor's State of the City speech, calls for a line that runs aboveground on rails embedded in public roadways and flows alongside automobile traffic — a sleeker and nimbler version of San Francisco's trolleys.
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The options this year included two nights of artists from the ECM Records roster, performing in the handsome new 800-seat Tishman Auditorium at the New School: a distinctly aboveground setting, and a powerful lure for anyone in search of proven quality.
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But aboveground, the many Tethers have joined hands together in a mirror of Hands Across America, the 1986 event meant to raise money and awareness of hunger, which stretched a 6.5 million-person chain (almost all the way) across the Lower 48.
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As the years passed, Ms. Bergeron remained largely out of the public spotlight until 2006, when she was quoted in articles about the last aboveground remnant of the World Trade Center, a part of the staircase that she had taken to safety.
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A woman pulled her turtleneck over her mouth and nose, and as train sped north toward the Bronx, the moneyed world of the Upper East Side aboveground was quiet enough to hear birds chirping in the budding trees on East 483th Street.
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But the practice of interring in aboveground vaults — which has nothing to do with a high water table, despite what the tour guides in New Orleans may say — is a tradition that goes back centuries in Louisiana, one that would not be easily given up.
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"I had known that aboveground workers had wages in arrears, but it's also true that workers down shafts are also in arrears, and I spoke wrongly about that," Mr. Lu said in follow-up comments on Sunday reported by a news website in Beijing.
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, human societies have produced an excess of CO₂, by taking carbon stores from deep inside the earth — in the form of coal, oil and gas — and from stores aboveground (mostly wood), then putting it into the atmosphere by burning it.
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The pièce de résistance is "Bower Pool" (21874), an aboveground pool hung upside down from the ceiling, emitting a cascade of streamers, lights and confetti; it's reminiscent of the nooks in nightclubs where acts of debauchery are performed — although none are likely to take place here.
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The pièce de résistance is "Bower Pool" (2016), an aboveground pool hung upside down from the ceiling, emitting a cascade of streamers, lights and confetti; it's reminiscent of the nooks in nightclubs where acts of debauchery are performed — although none are likely to take place here.
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At one end of the room a worker with a blowtorch applies a vinyl coating to one Flyer; at the other end, a small crane sits ready to hoist a finished craft into an aboveground pool, to verify that it can land on water without flooding.
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When the elegant plantation home was built in Baton Rouge, La., some two centuries ago, it was elevated a few feet aboveground — providing greatly boosted odds of limited damage in one of the Mississippi delta's frequent big floods (not to mention protection from termites and the like).
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They are building mausoleums for aboveground burials — more stacking of caskets, but unlike apartment buildings, where the most desirable units tend to be at the top, in mausoleums the eye-level offerings are the most coveted and expensive, with prices declining as you go higher or lower.
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And while this skill set has mostly been of use in places where the power lines are aboveground, sagging, even in good weather, from tilted pole to tilted pole, the underground electricals of New York are now equally menaced by rising (and descending, into the works) water.
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Even before the first flake fell, as the storm churned and gathered strength in the mid-Atlantic Monday afternoon, officials in New York ordered all aboveground subway service suspended on Tuesday — only the second time they have taken such a precaution in the history of the system.
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003, originally championed the idea of creating an adjunct train depot at the Farley Building in an effort to restore grandeur to Penn Station, where the aboveground train hall was torn down in the 1960s to make way for Madison Square Garden.
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What's selling now Recent residential sales in New York City and the region: New Jersey | 3 bedrooms, 2 baths A 93-year-old shingle-sided house with a fireplace in the living room, a home office, a screened-in back porch, a finished basement and an aboveground pool.
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These anecdotes are rendered to point out that while subway delays and accidents have made underground travel immiserating in New York during recent months, the aboveground experience hasn't been gloriously compensatory, even though consumer complaints of all kinds to the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission were down last year.
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My limited artistic ability doomed the human race The concept shifted quite a bit over the course of painting it, but here's the rough idea: an apocalyptic war has destroyed the aboveground world, leaving only fields of forest and skyscrapers that are perpetually burning, mostly because the fire effect looks pretty great.
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What's Selling Now 2718 Anthony Avenue, Bellmore 12 WEEKS on the market $9003,999 list price 1% BELOW list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 1½ baths DETAILS A 66-year-old house with hardwood floors, a combined living and dining room with a mirrored wall, a finished basement, a wood deck and an aboveground pool.
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Still, there have been many cases of alligators and similar reptiles being found aboveground, including a four-foot alligator taken out of Kissena Lake in Queens in 1995; an American alligator found in 2003 in Alley Pond Park, also in Queens; and a two-foot caiman caught in Central Park in June 2001.
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Aboveground traffic is worse than ever in LA and Chicago, so both those cities' mayors called in the preeminent CEO of for-profit future tech ideation to fix the snarl—Elon Musk's Boring Company is already drilling tunnels underneath Los Angeles, and has just won a contract to connect O'Hare Airport with central Chicago.
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Amazon is building its own fleet of trucks and UPS is exploring new ways to deliver goods such as drones and self-driving trucks in the U.S. Amazon also filed a patent for "Dedicated network delivery systems" that may include "subterranean or aboveground elements" in November 220, with the filing showing images of packages being transported underground.
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COST $11,240 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate ____ 4 Valley View Avenue, Randolph 23 WEEKS on the market $429,900 list price 3% ABOVE list price SIZE 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths DETAILS A 60-year-old aluminum-sided ranch with a wet bar, an eat-in kitchen, an attached two-car garage and an aboveground pool.
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As Ms. Crabapple's haunting images flash by, the film takes us from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws — the draconian 1973 statutes enacted in New York that exploded the state's prison population and ushered in a period of similar sentencing schemes for other states — through the extraordinary growth in our nation's prison population to the emerging aboveground marijuana market of today.
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COSTS $2,215 a month in maintenance LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate ____ 14-21 63th Street, College Point 19 WEEKS on the market $1,195,000 list price 1% BELOW list price SIZE 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths DETAILS A brick house with an eat-in kitchen with glazed-wood cabinets; a master bedroom with a vaulted ceiling; an aboveground pool; and a finished basement.
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Through it, pedestrians are conducted past five windows portraying bunnies seen from a bird's-eye vantage as they ice-skate on a forest pond; a mother owl nestling three newly hatched owlets with bobble heads; a bear buried in a snowbank; a gaggle of dancing geese; and a brace of foxes slumbering in an underground den as aboveground raccoons attempt to awaken them.
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In September 2015, when the Chinese government and the United Nations co-organized the Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in New York and President Xi Jinping made a state visit to the United States, we held a photography exhibit called Aboveground: 40 Moments of Transformation near the U.N. headquarters, documenting the performance art and other actions of Chinese feminists.
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COST $33 a month in maintenance, 52% tax-deductible LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate ____ 15 North Street, Montrose 15 WEEKS on the market $349,000 list price 3% BELOW list price SIZE 3 bedrooms, 2 baths DETAILS A 112-year-old vinyl-sided house with a formal dining room, a washer and dryer, a wood-burning stove and an aboveground pool.
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All the major corporate structures on the Nike campus in Beaverton are named after the company's most famous sponsored stars—there's the John McEnroe, the Michael Jordan, the Tiger Woods, the Bo Jackson—and though the Mia Hamm Building rises a mere four stories aboveground, it's home to a cavernous basement level that is suggestive of bunkers, classified military research installations, and villains' lairs.
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But let's imagine that Louie, instead of just coördinating taxis driven by a community of loners—Eastern European immigrant with multiple personality disorder, beautiful single mother, struggling actor, washed-up boxer ("Taxi" was about solidarity among otherwise alienated workers)—can coördinate all the systems, private and public, aboveground and under: Uber, subway, gallery, representational, temporal, spatial, national, natural, supernatural, not that any of these things, by itself, exists.
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The aboveground train rushed past ugly high-rises and megamalls built as a result of the aggressive urban transformation policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, known as the A.K.P. Changing lines at Yenikapi, a new transportation hub on the southern shore of the Bosporus, I found the subway station decorated with tall cylindrical columns displaying photographs of policemen and soldiers who died fighting the coup plotters last July 15.
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Among the thousands of objects and stories on display, some of the most impressive are the giant ones: a South Carolina slave cabin; a log cabin built and inhabited by free slaves in Maryland; a Segregation-era Southern Railway car; a prison guard tower from 1930s Louisiana; a Tuskegee Airplane from World War II. (Several of these bulky artifacts were lowered into the building's basement before the aboveground structure was built around them.) However, it's often the smaller objects — like the tiny shackles — that are most memorable and moving.
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