Word: metering
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...player dared, for fear of getting far worse. On Saturday, TIME found what may be the first solid proof of torture in Uday's own backyard - the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Laying on its side beneath a pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls...
...After a string of explosions that lasted at least 10 minutes, there was a brief lull, and I began to back away towards the wall. I had only gone a few meters when a new round of blasts began. A rocket, flying no more than a meter off the ground, smashed into the mound to my left, setting off even louder explosions. Again, I was flattened on the ground, my clothes rippling from the shockwaves...
Maintaining a pace of over 35 strokes per minute, the squad led by a full boat length just one quarter of the way through the 2000-meter race...
Radcliffe also captured the varsity four event in 8:08.9, gaining open water by the 600-meter mark and beating out runner-up Wisconsin by eight seconds. Princeton followed four seconds behind the Badgers and just ahead of Cornell...
...highlight of lightweight four racing came in the semifinals, where the team, racing neck-and-neck with Wisconsin for most of the course, pulled ahead with a strong final 500-meter sprint. The Black and White finished in first with a time of 8:23.5, a full two seconds ahead of the Badgers...