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In Mumbai, the financial capital, citizens staged a rare protest against worsening pothole problem, as clogged sewage lines dumped garbage onto flooded roads during the extended monsoon.
From BBC
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates such plasmas by directing 192 powerful laser beams onto hydrogen-containing targets.
Calvert-Lewin latched onto Brenden Aaronson's low cross for his eighth goal of the season, seven of which have come in the last six games.
From Barron's
With his team, the Gang of Outlaws, Bloch built vehicles such as the Trippy Tippy Hippy Van, a 1976 Volkswagen bus flipped on its side and turned into a racing car, and his Speedy’s Weenies, a hot-dog stand welded onto a Suzuki SUV and turned into a racer.
The cranes line the shore, waiting to be loaded onto ZPMC’s heavy-lift ships where they are lashed and welded to the vessel ahead of its voyage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.