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A 25-foot-high boulder tumbled onto a highway in Malibu, Calif., during a weekend of relentless rainstorms in early January.


A 25-foot-high boulder Boulder, city, United States
Boulder, city (1990 pop. 83,312), seat of Boulder co., N central Colo.; inc. 1871. A Rocky Mountain resort and a suburb of Denver, it is the seat of the Univ. of Colorado (1876).
 tumbled onto a highway in Malibu, Calif., during a weekend of relentless rainstorms in early January January: see month. . A work crew uncoiled un·coil  
tr. & intr.v. un·coiled, un·coil·ing, un·coils
To unwind or untwist or to become unwound or untwisted.

Adj. 1.
 a long yellow fuse for the explosives that would be used to blast it apart and clear the road a few days later. More than 20 people died as a result of floods and mudslides in Southern California's rainiest spell in nearly 40 years.
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Title Annotation:news & Trends
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Date:Feb 14, 2005
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