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This wild machine debuted a few years back from Volkswagen in the form of a 900hp Chevy V-8 tucked as far back in the tiny engine compartment as you could fit a small block V-8.

• The cost (to the individual or the public purse) is much higher, and often unaffordable, for later circumcision.

Is 2015 the last year of Topps Football? I heard that Panini and the NFLPA agreed to an exclusive license that’ll start in March of 2016.

Bagpiper was one of the earliest brands that took to surrogate advertising. The brand introduced the slogan of "Khoob jamega rang jab mil bhaitenge teen yaar. Aap, main aur Bagpiper” in 1993 and got the-then famous Bollywood celebrities such as Dharmendra, Jackie Shroff and others to feature in its ‘soda’ campaigns.

How to do this is already known. In water-scarce regions where people—usually women—have to spend hours each day fetching water from a distant source, it may mean building pipes or bore-wells and training people to maintain them. In places with heavy seasonal rain followed by long dry seasons it means building (or in many cases restoring) storage systems, ideally in places where evaporation will be low. (In Bermuda, with abundant year-round rain, domestic water needs are met by harvesting rainwater from the islands’ roofs, which building regulations stipulate must make room for storage tanks.) And to ensure that the water people drink does not kill them, the discharge of untreated effluent has to be stopped, and people have to use toilets.

Ancient Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia dug canals. More than 4,000 years ago Egyptian farmers relied on the Nile—traces of their irrigation systems survive today. Throughout the Roman Empire cities were supplied by manmade aqueducts. High in the Andes in present-day Peru the Incas and their predecessors built cisterns and irrigation canals, and carved terraces into the hillsides.

Often, the next step is to venture down the borehole itself. Geophysics will provide important information about the formation and inflow, from which it is possible to identify the principal flow horizons and differences in water quality. This provides site specific data that should then feedback to the initial conceptual model and be used to update the risk assessment.

A huge expansion would also involve huge complications. “You start to get into really big challenges when you get to these big, large scales,” Glen Peters, a research director at the Cicero Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, told me. “If you can do one carbon-capture facility, where Carbon Engineering or Climeworks can build a big plant, great. You need to do that 5,000 times. And to capture a million tons of CO₂ with direct air capture, you need a small power plant just to run that facility. So if you’re going to build one direct-air-capture facility every day for the next 30 years to get to some of these scenarios, then in addition, we have to build a new mini power plant every day as well.” It’s also the case that you have to address two extraordinary problems at the same time, Peters added. “To reach 1.5 degrees, we need to halve emissions every decade,” he said. That would mean persuading entire nations, like China and the United States, to switch from burning coal to using renewables at precisely the same time that we make immense investments in negative-emission technologies. And Peters pointed out that this would need to be done even as governments choose among competing priorities: health care, education and so on.

A 27-horsepower Kohler EFI gas engine powers the drill, which includes a powerful 3,000- psi hydraulic system. The drill’s 12.5-gpm hydraulic power pack achieves a rotary speed of 100 rpm. The system also provides the drill’s hydraulic winch with 1,500 pounds of pull for raising the automatic hammer.

A 49-year-old man has injured 20 children with a hammer at a primary school in China’s capital, officials said.

They hope to find proof of the flood tunnel system, thus proving that the old stories are true. In particular, they hope to see the dye seep out into Smith’s Cove. If this happens, Rick says it’s, “information confirmation,” while Marty offers that he’s willing to stay, “open-minded.”

Of course, the answer is that nature doesn’t care about our perceptions of life. Spacefaring, scientifically advanced great apes at the surface may seem normal to us, but to most of Earth’s life, we’re the freaks: we walk atop the roof of an alien world far more populous than our own.