Word: meters
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...also calls for some new construction. Work has just been completed on a 400-meter speed-skating oval next to the arena in the center of the village. Two towers, one of them soaring 284 ft. into the air, have been built for the 90-and 70-meter ski jumps. Construction also has started on a complex to house 1,800 athletes. Once the Games are over, the athletes' village will be converted into a minimum-security federal prison that should provide jobs for some 200 local residents. "Every facility here will have a viable afteruse," says MacKenzie...
Prior to the one-meter diving, the meet's mid-way event, Harvard could not get a first place finish. "We just lost all the close races in the first half of the meet, "Crimson coach Stephanie Walsh said...
...diving events were the real trouble for Harvard yesterday, and they made the difference in the final outcome. The Crimson's top two divers, Peri Ozkum and Emily Rothrock, did not make the trip, succumbing to reading period pressures. As a result, Dartmouth took both the one-meter and three-meter events by 8-1 margins...
After the one-meter diving, Harvard bounced back, with Kelly and Jane Fayer taking a one-two win in the 100-yd. freestyle...
...Astronomer Joseph S. Miller, using the Lick Observatory's powerful 120-in. (3-meter) telescope near San Jose, Calif., has produced powerful new evidence to support the "distant" quasar argument. Expanding on earlier work at the Hale Observatories by Beverley Oke and James Gunn with the 200-in. (5-meter) Palomar telescope, he and two colleagues studied one of the so-called BL Lacertae objects, which until the late 1960s were thought to be ordinary variable stars, but now are known to resemble quasars...