11.   The body here in northern Canada could have lain frozen in the blue ice for hundreds or thousands of years, Mackie said.

12.   These can get hard and tough, and a bit of blue ice pops up from time to time.

13.   Winds evaporate the ice, leaving the meteorites exposed in hard beds of slippery, wind-swept blue ice.

14.   Franz, as well as most skiers, lamented that blue ice burned out edges of skis and made it difficult to control them.

15.   From the heat of Arizona the research travels to the bitter cold of Greenland to descend hundreds of feet into a startlingly blue ice cave.

16.   Several skiers, including World Cup leader Hans Knauss of Austria, could not control their skis on blue ice, fell and did not finish.

17.   Skimming over the blue ice at the Coliseum, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze were flawless, running through the eight required elements and smiling broadly when they were done.