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Construction crews are replacing the existingsix-inch line with a 12-inch line. The extracapacity is necessary, Hawkes said, in partbecause new sprinkler systems installed thissummer will increase the flow of water to thedorms. The iron pipes are also prone to chemicalreactions underground, and tend to build up crustover time, Hawkes said...
...Cambridge, the average height of pedestrians has risen by an inch--not because of a growth hormone dreamed up in an MIT laboratory, but because of a new trend in footwear...
...turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch up only...
...four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint from the wall, using the mulberry-bark strips as hinges, to clean the limestone walls of the cave and repair salt fractures...
...embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife, and I made a scratch no longer than about a quarter-inch, and that...