This dead zone would have acted as a plug, blocking matter from migrating toward the sun.
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When the characters fly through the air, the space becomes an actual medium, not a dead zone.
The dead zone drives shrimp farther out to sea, making it costlier and more time-consuming to catch them.
Some are so vast that the center is a countertop "dead zone, " a hard-to-reach place for spills to puddle.
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Historically, golf was a dead zone after the PGA Championship in August.
Instead, gas and dust would simply have orbited around our star without moving inward, creating a so-called "dead zone" in the disk.
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Gas and dust would have piled up in the dead zone, increasing its density and causing it to heat up by gravitational compression.
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"Some people say dead zone, we say growth corridor, " Craig says.
But it concludes that the oil is continuing to break up and disperse underneath the surface, making the emergency of a major oxygen-poor dead zone unlikely.
But now interest rates are up, sales of existing homes are down, and real estate experts are predicting that Vegas will soon be a dead zone.
So when a phone clerk said the "World Edition" BlackBerry could keep him connected--even in Japan, a notorious dead zone for Western phones and personal digital assistants--Kozarsky was sold.
Attempts to reduce the waste being dumped into the Baltic have so far failed to stop the growth of the dead zone, now equivalent to around one and half times the size of Denmark.
And because the bacteria use oxygen in the water as they digest oil, scientists are concerned that process could cause an oxygen-depleted area underwater a "dead zone" that could choke off a variety of undersea life.
By October, it had zoomed past Cleveland more than 100 miles to the east and penetrated the lake's central basin, where decomposed algae had already created an oxygen-deprived "dead zone" lethal to most fish and other aquatic organisms.
If implemented, the Baltic Deepwater Oxygenation (Box) project would require around 100 pumping stations built around the Baltic Sea to transport oxygen deep underwater to counteract the declining amounts of oxygen and prevent the growth of the dead zone.
Nancy Rabalais, who heads the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and has mapped the dead zone each year for nearly three decades, claims that the amount of nitrates flowing into the Gulf of Mexico has increased by up to 300% over that time.
When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.
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Holing up in a tech dead-zone sounds like nonsense to many an Internet addict.
With our cell phones down to the red zone, and momma laptop dead, we did manage to make contact.
Farmers within a 1.8 mile (3km) protection zone of Cellardyke - where the infected dead swan was found - were ordered to move their birds inside.
Although levels of cross-border violence have dropped sharply since the conflict, four Palestinians have been shot dead close to the border, where Israel maintains a buffer zone which civilians are forbidden to enter.
According to some estimates, attacks from warplanes (before the imposition of a no-fly zone), snipers on rooftops, and troops firing on crowds have already left thousands dead.
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