Try the warm Valrhona chocolate cake with malted-milk-ball ice cream.

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The first is that the asteroid is really a ball of ice, like the nucleus of a comet, and that the minerals which the spectroscope detected are only a coating.

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Any nation willing to send the products of the best minds of a generation and a significant portion of its GNP hurling into space to blast a ball of ice three miles across will be treated very carefully by its neighbours.

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My favorite was the guy that took a picture of ice cubes claiming it was golf ball sized hail falling in his backyard.

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Her massive spruce timbers weigh 2, 000 pounds, but this is an elephant on ball bearings: A single person can push her across the ice.

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And you will pass a golf course, and see four hackers out there dressed for ice fishing, moving slowly, knocking a fluorescent orange ball across a fairway thick with snow.

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Wichita State trailed by three points with nine seconds left, but Louisville forced a tie-up and had the possession arrow, giving the Cardinals the ball and the chance to put its national-championship game appearance on ice.

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We mixed martinis by headlamp and ate three different just-add-water camping meals from AlpineAire and Mountain House on a white tablecloth, followed by ice cream made fresh in a contraption that looks like a hamster ball.

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Uninterrupted Mom Reaction: I lost my patience with my four-year-old on the soccer field, was too lazy (aka depleted of energy) to kick a ball with my son on the sidelines and like a broken record I kept telling him to stop sucking on ice instead of providing an alternative.

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