Mohammad Nayim's(ph) eyes blaze with anger as he shows visitors a patch of mud where he buried 10 of his neighbors beside an open drain.

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After three days my lip finally split open and began to drain.

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His young son needed three open heart surgeries as well as other surgeries to drain fluid.

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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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And since open pits are still flooded and will take weeks to drain, shipping from stockpiles only postpones the inevitable: a reduction in met coal supply.

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An equally big part of the mental drain is that, on a super-firm U.S. Open course, the golfers can't just hit their shots at a particular spot and hope the ball stays there.

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