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...scanning tunneling microscope, invented by Binnig and Rohrer, records the position of a needle that rises and dips to keep constant height while moving across the tiny irregularities on the surface of a specimen. The ups correspond to the bumps of individual atoms, and the downs to spaces between them, producing an atomic-scale contour...
Using that model, O'Neill established community committees to compromise on the height of the parking garage next to the Kennedy School, and convinced the University to back off a proposed bridge between the Fogg and Sackler Art Museums...
Northeastern, which became a Division I club this year after playing national-caliber Division II ball the past few seasons, dominated the net play with its height and good blocking. "They were bigger than we were. They were hitting over our blocks," Forman said...
...changes, which lower height limits on new buildings and increase allowable residential densities in some areas while cutting back on commercial densities, were developed over the course of three years with the involvement of wide variety of groups and individuals...
...marble and bronze, mainly based on the human figure, stood, sat and (especially) reclined on their plinths in cities from London to Chicago, from Melbourne to New York. No other major artist in the past century, not even Auguste Rodin, completed as many public commissions as Moore. At the height of his fame, from 1960 onward, it seemed that every mayor, museum director and chairman of the board in the Western world had simultaneously agreed that a Moore work was the only possible solution to the problem of how to relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus...