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...told, Harvard compiled nine straight first places, running the gamut of events. The Crimson took first in the mile, the hurdles, the shot out, the triple and high jumps, and the 400, 800, 200 and 55 meter dash...
Goetze smashed her own Harvard record in the 500 meter. The sophomore, who usually runs the 800 meter, finished first in 1:14.16, fourteen-tenths of a second better than the previous...
...recessed murder trial for one more lap in the nastiest relay in memory and succeeded in 1) giving the defendant a one-sided word with the world without the unpleasantness of cross-examination or any of the other tethers of jurisprudence; 2) restocking the larder against legal fees, the meter running like it is; and 3) stealing the thunder from another book brought out--there are no coincidences--just days before. This one, Raging Heart, is a work from the other side, written with the approval and cooperation of Nicole Brown Simpson's family...
Older Japanese homes are often perched a half-meter or so off the ground on wooden frames. ``It's as if the house is standing on stilts,'' says Scawthorn. ``In a quake it collapses, and the house comes down.'' Well-placed plywood braces, combined with steel-expansion bolts anchoring the house in a cement foundation, would keep the base intact...
What had been a bustling anchorage for container ships tended by towering cranes on rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths...