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Tunnel Summary
854 words, approx. 3 pages
Tunnels are used for transportation, mining, and drainage purposes, as well as for installation of power sources. Although tunneling is difficult and dangerous, the benefits are often worth the effort. Early civilizations relied on tunnels to transport...
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Tunnel
193 words, approx. 1 pages
Horizontal or nearly horizontal underground or underwater passageway. Tunnels are used for mining, as passageways for trains and motor vehicles, for diverting rivers around damsites, for housing underground installations such as power plants, and for...
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Tunnel Information
2,917 words, approx. 10 pages
A tunnel is an underground passage way. The definition of what constitutes a tunnel is not universally agreed upon. However, in general tunnels are at least twice as long as they are wide. In addition, they should be completely enclosed on all sides,...


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The Tunnel.
11/01/1996: 1,588 words, approx. 5 pages
Photographer Margaret Morton has spent roughly the last seven years documenting communities and shelters built by homeless men and women in New York City and their (invariably losing) battles to retain control of them. She has photographed the shanties erected by residents of...
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Concrete
Tunnels and tunnelling on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
04/01/2002: 1,872 words, approx. 6 pages
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is being constructed in two stages: Section 1 is the 40-mile section from the Channel Tunnel to Waterloo Station. Section 2 runs the 30 miles from Fawkenham junction to St Pancras. The civil engineering works on Section 1,...
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Gaza tunnel smugglers grow under Hamas
8/14/2007: 790 words, approx. 3 pages
Gazans are finding an antidote to their growing isolation: digging tunnels under their border with Egypt to smuggle everything from weapons to cigarettes to people.A group of smugglers recently gave an Associated Press photographer rare permission to accompany them as they dug one tunnel. In...
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Tunnel farming spreads across U.S.
2/5/2007: 701 words, approx. 2 pages
They look like greenhouses _ hut-like structures swathed in plastic that serve as cocoons for growing tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, carrots, strawberries and bushels of other fruits and vegetables. Called high tunnels, the buildings are popping up in Ohio fields and around the country as farmers...
 


 

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