Tiger Woods continues to argue for privacy around his Thanksgiving night collision with a fire hydrant.

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Howell stands back as his young helper wrenches open a nearby fire hydrant.

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Once there, firefighters have to plug their engine into a fire hydrant--the equivalent of a wall jack in the information world.

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While the rest of us were in glorious food comas late Thursday night, the golf legend was speeding out of his Florida driveway and into a fire hydrant.

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Woods was facing questions from a group of reporters for the first time since crashing his car into a fire hydrant outside his Florida home on 27 November 2009.

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At other times, it can be educational like the time I watched a man open his beer bottle on a fire hydrant and drain it in one lusty gulp.

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His last victory came two years ago, at the Australian Masters, which preceded by less than two weeks his famous encounter with the fire hydrant, followed by scandal, a series of left-leg maladies and a crisis of on-course confidence.

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That's the conclusion of an ever-gushing hydrant of research from academics, psychologists, economists and social scientists from places like the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia.

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Some of the other firefighting equipment founded in Chicago is less high-tech: the snorkel truck, the fire plug or hydrant, the collapsible fire escape and the fire pole, which was invented by a Chicago fire captain in 1874 so firefighters could slide quickly to the ground floor.

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