Word: cm
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...Video-display terminals. People spend whole workdays close to computer screens. The should stay 75 cm (30 in.) from the front and 90cm (3 ft.) from the sides and back. The same rule applies...
...wasn't for [Hughes], it probably would have been a bigger win for us," said fellow second-liner Mark Bavis, who with his twin Mike trailed Hughes by only a year at Catholic Memorial, a traditional power in the Division I Catholic League. Harvard Captain Ted Donato also attended CM...
...water from a single canal system, the California Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sacramento River Delta 800 km (500 miles) south to Los Angeles. Mark Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, an examination of Western water, notes that the delta is sinking by as much as 7.6 cm (3 in.) a year, leaving the area, much of it already below sea level, ever more vulnerable to seawater intrusion. A major earthquake on the nearby Hayward fault could destroy the levees that protect this crucial water supply. "It's a fragile, fragile system," says Reisner, "ludicrously so since 19 million people...
...calf is tiny -- only about 12 1/2 cm (5 in.) long -- and it is made of bronze, and possibly lead and silver as well, rather than gold. It may have been burnished to a golden color, says Stager. The calf was probably displayed emerging from the vessel in which it was discovered. He believes the idol was worshiped not for its inherent holiness but because it was associated with the Canaanite deity El, father of the gods, or his son Baal, god of storms...
...major computer publication has broken ranks. The July issue of Macworld, an independently owned magazine for users of Apple Macintosh computers, features a cover story by Brodeur and an analysis of the magnetic fields generated by ten popular monitors. The results are disturbing. At a % distance of 10 cm (4 in.) from the screen, Macworld measured emissions that were, in some cases, ten times as high as those linked with cancer in children...