Many tanker captains deliberately flush out the holes of their vessels in foreign ports leaving the foul mess for other people to clean up, and the fines they pay if they are caught – which is not always the case – are literally peanuts. ... Some of the hydrocarbons that we release into the atmosphere, especially those from the aerosol cans together with the rockets that we launch into space, cause large holes to appear in the ozone layer above the Pole caps. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They emerged into the present world through a small hole in the ground - the world's navel. ... It may be a hole made by a burrowed animal, a hollow tree stump, a spring or even a swamp. ... Spend a couple of minutes seeing the hole, without going into it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School