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When crowds are moving, there should be no more than two to four people per square meter to prevent injury. It's a simple mathematical reality. Otherwise, people do not have enough room to recover from being jostled. Someone can easily fall. Then someone else will lean down to help that person and get sucked down, too. The pile up begins, absorbing the growing pressure of all the people coming from behind...
...essential that event organizers preserve enough space anywhere the crowd may flow. At Hillsborough Stadium in the U.K. in 1989, a terrace became packed with fans, causing a railing to give way. In all, 96 people died. On the terrace, there were 8.4 people per square meter, according to studies of photographs taken before the railing collapsed...
...hoping to build off last year’s success that included, among other accolades, All-America honors after finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships in the high jump, her first career indoor Heptagonal title, and an Olympic trials performance that resulted in a personal best 1.84-meter clearance. “The goal I’m going to stick to is to not keep track of numbers in my head,” Christensen said. “I’m going to focus on just going out and having fun.” With the season...
...husband, Leighton, in a Wales hospital, Lewis spent long periods of time taking in both the details of her environment and the nature of a period of potential loss. “A Hospital Odyssey” reads like a traditional epic, albeit with a modern bent: in meter, straightforward, and descriptive of action. She wrote, “Vials of blood were being analyzed next door. A robot shook them, thick as mud.” Although Lewis described poetry as an avenue through which to explore unsettling life situations, she maintained that poetry should not be used...
...need to work on the amount of power that I am generating from the underwater kick. I also need to be more aggressive on the 200-yard backstroke,” Diekema said. Another fantastic effort came from sophomore diver Zac Ranta, who succeeded in capturing both the 1-meter diving event with a score of 283.43 and the 3-meter diving event with a score of 311.40. The 3-meter diving event was a blowout, with Ranta’s final score totaling over 60 points higher than the runner-up. “Zac Ranta is really stepping...