Teachers at Boiling Springs High say he returned repeatedly, in uniform, to the campus to renew acquaintances and sing the praises of the Marine Corps.

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Mitt Romney's speech was fluid and scathing, boiling water poured from on high on the president.

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Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.

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During his sophomore year in high school, he reached out to Northbrook Baptist Church in Boiling Springs for help.

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