Take an Underground train a few stops from the borough of Westminster, and life expectancy drops by 12 years.

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For example, take Advanced Underground Construction, an Iowa-based company, and its principal, William David Ward II.

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There's been a longstanding rumor that Google liked ASUS' Eee Pad MeMO ME370T well enough to bestow it with an official Nexus badge and take it underground until it was ready to show its Jelly Bean face.

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Last Wednesday's county council decision saw the authority's cabinet vote against progressing to the next stage of a process that would have seen studies take place in search of a suitable location for an underground nuclear dump.

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