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  • “We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

    DTV transition will happen 2009

  • “We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

    Friday Top 5: Late Night Talk Shows 2009

  • The 8-meter long, water-filled rubber "snake" is a prototype of a 200 meter version that the developers, Atkins Global, hopes will generate the energy required to power 1000 homes.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In today's pictures from the U.S., an angler fishes in a water-filled parking lot in Mississippi and friends hug at the funeral for a Marine killed in Afghanistan at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

    Photos of the Day 2011

  • Rice grows in water-filled paddies, surrounded by mud walls.

    Rice and math frankwu 2009

  • Later, after our meal, we can choose to canoe on the kayak, take a walk through the jungle to Balam Kim, a cenote or water-filled sink hole where we can swim in its deep underground recesses, take a zip line ride or just lie in one of the hammocks with the sweet scent of jungle flowers filling the hot and humid afternoon air.

    Hanal Pixan, Maya Day of the Dead in Pac Chen, Quintana Roo 2009

  • A risky search by divers of the sunken, water-filled half of the ship for the missing was suspended at darkness Saturday night.

    Costa Concordia Disaster: Italian Cruise Ship Runs Aground Off Tuscany Coast 2012

  • Trey knew his life would return to the mundane when he promised to be the good man his mother wanted him to be, before she died in her water-filled bath tub, unable to rise to the surface in time, trampled by his firm foot.

    A Serial Killer’s First Day in Medical School Ajay Vishwanathan 2011

  • The situation is far different from a normal cold shutdown, where nuclear fuel is kept cool in a water-filled container.

    Tokyo Turns to Evacuation and Cleanup Mitsuru Obe 2011

  • In today's pictures, an angler fishes in a water-filled parking lot in Mississippi, a Buddhist monk prays in a tsunami-ravaged wasteland in Japan, a sand sculpture on an India beach shows the end for Osama bin Laden, and more.

    Photos of the Day: May 2 2011

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