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Villarroel was the 28th miner lifted from the depths in a 22-hour rescue operation Wednesday that extricated all of the miners and captivated a global television audience.
In weeks before rescuers made contact, miners struggled with despair Jonathan Franklin 2010
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Villarroel was the 28th miner lifted from the depths in a 22-hour rescue operation Wednesday that extricated all of the miners and captivated a global television audience.
In weeks before rescuers made contact, miners struggled with despair Jonathan Franklin 2010
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Caps players talk about their least favorite road trips, and Mike Green's 22-hour bus ride from Saskatoon to Seattle sounds less than pleasant.
Back at home, Caps seeking stability Greg Schimmel 2010
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Luis Urzúa, whose calm leadership guided his colleagues through their darkest hours, became the last of the 33 trapped Chilean miners to be freed early this morning, rising to the surface of the Atacama desert as the epic, 22-hour rescue operation drew to a close.
Chilean miners rescue: all 33 men out Sam Jones 2010
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But on the 22-hour flight from Thailand, his back gave out.
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In October 2009, Islamic militants attacked the army's headquarters in Rawalpindi, leading to a 22-hour commando operation.
Pakistan Detains Three in Base Attack Owais Tohid 2011
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In October 2009, militants attacked the army headquarters close to the capital, Islamabad, and held dozens hostage in a 22-hour standoff that left 23 people dead, including nine militants.
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Mike Mullen, last week accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of supporting insurgents in planning and executing a 22-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Sept. 13 as well as a truck bomb days earlier that wounded 77 American troops.
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At its worst there was a 22-hour outage that nearly destroyed the company.
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Authorities called off a 22-hour rescue mission at a partly collapsed parking garage Saturday after determining that no one had been trapped when a glass canopy attached to a high-rise condominium building fell the day before, a fire official said.
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