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...Free-throws] really helped us in the first half to inch our way back in it,” Amaker said...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Defense Leads the Way for Men's Basketball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Thanks to massive spending (and borrowing) by its state-owned development companies, Dubai was soon every inch the global financial center. It's home to the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab, the most expensive hotel in the world, and the unfinished 160-story Burj Dubai, the planet's tallest building. Its coastline has sprouted archipelagoes of man-made islands shaped to represent a date palm and a map of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Dubai | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...cyber-version of the West End that its developers say is the most realistic and accurate virtual recreation of a city center ever produced. Launched Nov. 30, it is indeed impressive-looking, thanks to a laser-scanning technology that picks up details down to one fifth of an inch (5mm) and faithfully depicts every brick and slab of concrete. Once users download the software (which is free), they can stroll - or teleport - themselves around the district to one store after another, no matter where in the world they really are. (See the top 10 gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Shopping Stressful? Try Virtual Oxford Street | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

...play takes full advantage of every inch of space in the Loeb Ex with a complex set that allows many of the musical’s locales to be visible at once. For the audience, this means watching the two-hour long play from a set of uncomfortable bleachers; for the cast, it results in the main ensemble being onstage for almost the entire production, resulting in a sense of multidimensionality in a story that is too often reduced to the romance between Danny and Sandy. The subplots are equally compelling as the main narrative, particularly the storyline revolving around...

Author: By ABIGAIL B. LIND, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walker's "Grease" Helps an Old Favorite Run Smoothly | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...record for the coldest temperature in recorded history: a numbing -128.6°F on July 21, 1983, in the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter. Nearly one and a half times as large as the United States, Antarctica is geologically classified as a desert, garnering less than an inch of precipitation each year. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, not to mention the highest - Antarctica's average elevation is 7,544 feet (2,299 m). The name Antarctica comes from the Greek word antarktiké meaning "opposite to the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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