sinkholes

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SLGing sinkholes, the Royals could easily be close to 80 wins right now, maybe even higher.

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  • “There's lots of little dangers around an old mining town—sinkholes, cave-ins Mr. Callaghan,” Mrs. Clifford pleaded, angering Butler by interrupting him, “won't you please go outside and at least look for a sign He can't find any sign at night,” Butler said, bitterness tainting his voice. —  AHMM,January-February2008
  • The limestone sinkholes were already full of water. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
  • And in this morass of low bayou moss and sinkholes, another menace stalked. —  078 - The Crimson Serpent
  • But some are sinkholes, some are pits where the soil has caved in above an old shaft. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • We propose security goals for routing in sensor networks, show how attacks against ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks can be adapted into powerful attacks against sensor networks, introduce two classes of novel attacks against sensor networks -- sinkholes and HELLO floods, and analyze the security of all the major sensor network routing protocols. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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