It was a face that needed to be straightened out, like with pliers.

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Using two pairs of pliers, he destroyed the computer hard drives where the government said he kept inside information, according to last week's complaint.

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Authorities found an American passport, a black backpack, a flashlight, a pair of folding pliers, a camera and money on him, the newspaper said.

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He caught him saying he had ripped apart his computer drives with pliers and dumped the pieces in garbage trucks around New York, prosecutors say.

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Conservationists say poachers pull out their teeth - as the primates have a toxic bite - with pliers, making it impossible for them to return to the wild.

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So, when some of the old man's teeth needed pulling, he sat down at the kitchen table, knocked back a belt of whiskey, and yanked them out himself with a pair of electrician's pliers.

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First introduced in the late 1800s to save the strain on horses hauling carts up the city's steep inclines, the 15, 500-pound cable-powered cars grip a continuously moving underground cable with pliers-like gear to travel the streets of San Francisco.

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In the video, officials were shown removing the pipe from a ceiling that apparently was just below the restroom and then, at the hospital, using pliers and saws to gently pull apart the pipe, which was about 10 centimeters (about 3 inches) in diameter.

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Their mother's squawks competed with the din of morning-rush bridge traffic as Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, gently lifted the fluffy chicks out of their nesting box and used pliers to fasten metal bands around their legs.

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Manhattan United States Attorney Preet Bharara is claiming in a just-released criminal complaint that, after learning of a federal investigation, a former employee of SAC Capital tore apart his computer drives with pliers and walked around New York City tossing the remains in four separate garbage trucks, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

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