Word: heights
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After the game, players walked off the field with a kind of confused disbelief. But that seemed to be about the height of the emotional level all day. I'm not saying I expected to see wild, uncontrolled tempertantrums after the loss, but a little more reaction to such a stunning defeat would have been welcome...
Kinloch says Nathans told them that height was one criteria for the roommate combination because of the dorm's slanting ceilings. Islam, the tallest of the roommates...
...many of us, the young people in particular, who grew up in Hong Kong under the shadow of China, 1997 has long been a line of foreclosure on Hong Kong's future. Anticipation of the historic transition from British colonial rule to Chinese socialist rule has already reached its height on the small land with a population of six million. In a sense, the changeover is like the end of millenium pushed three years forward...
When Memorial Hall was dedicated in 1878 as a remembrance of Civil War veterans, it included a tower composed of much more than the current cube with gargoyles. This projection stretched 195 feet into the air, making up one-third of the height of the entire structure. The building, designed by Henry Van Brunt and William Robert Ware, dominated the Harvard skyline long before the Science Center, William James Hall and Holyoke Center bullied their way onto the scene...
While cloning is definitely a big deal scientifically, it should not be a big deal ethically. Cloning is just another method of reproduction. All this talk about re-creating a Hitler or an Einstein is baloney. While genetic characteristics such as height, hair color and sexual orientation may mirror the original, the thoughts and ideas of a clone will not. They are unique to each person. One day we will look back and wonder what all the fuss was about. BILL STOSINE Iowa City, Iowa...