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Lifeline to trapped Chilean miners

Drills are in place Monday outside the collapsed gold and copper mine in Copiapo, Chile. Engineers reinforced a lifeline to the 33 miners entombed deep inside the mine, preparing to keep them supplied with food, water, medicine and communications during the four months it may take to carve a tunnel wide enough to pull them out.

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