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...silvers and bronzes and seemed ready for better things. Finally, an unknown 17-year-old Aussie named Jon Sieben came out of deepest anonymity in Lane 6 to win the 200-meter butterfly over a singular West German named Michael Gross, beating Gross's world record by one-hundredth of a second...
Middle destance specialist Brad Bunney almost notched another Crimson second place but was awarded third-place in 800 when the judges ruled that he finished one-hundredth of a second behind Yale's Joe Secley The race started out at an incredibly fast pace with the runners finishing the quarter mile in a 51.2 clip. After such a quick start, the rest of the race was a matter of who could hold...
...most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...
...decision went to Army, with a time of 3:15.51. Penn got second, off by only one-hundredth of a second. And Harvard's time of 3:16,00--a new University record--was only enough for third place. "I'm not at all unhappy about the performance, though." McCurdy said. "In fact, I think the entire team feels pretty good about it. There were only ten points between our fourth-place finish and the winner. And I think if you look at the stats you'll see a lot of personal best performances...
Chaos is likely to continue for a while. For one thing, the old pounds will continue in circulation for three more months. For another, the new currency is almost indistinguishable from the old. Israelis riding the underground cable car in Haifa immediately took advantage of the similarities. They discovered that the new 1-agora coin (one-hundredth of a shekel) fit into a turnstile slot designed to take 6-pound tokens. They happily rode the cable car at one-sixtieth of the former cost until authorities changed the size of the slot...