Word: widest
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...change sensibly from neighborhood to neighborhood. On north-south avenues, for instance, large front yards are required, thus leaving ocean views unobstructed even from points well inland; the same homeowners, however, must erect streetside picket fences to provide pedestrians a reassuring sense of scale and enclosure. Along Seaside's widest boulevard, the guidelines will produce grand houses with verandas...
...flawless Italian (as well as half-a-dozen other languages), and may have won over some with his moving homily at John Paul's funeral 10 days ago. This evening, he actually stumbled over a few words in his first greeting as Pope, but Romans got to see the widest smile ever seen from the sometimes-severe Ratzinger. Still he may have other kinds of corrections to make. He was seen by progressives here, like in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West, as the symbol of the last papacy's doctrinal rigidity. To those in step with Pope John...
...issues stirring the most activism on campus are South Africa, Central America, the CIA, the threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered...
...that calls for more peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur; imposes an arms embargo on all parties to the violence, including the Khartoum government; freezes the assets of, and bans travel by, individuals suspected of war crimes; and restricts offensive military flights. "We want a strong resolution with the widest possible support but which also makes a real difference on the ground for the Sudanese people," says a State Department spokesman. "We want to identify perpetrators and have them brought to justice by internationally accepted means." And therein lies a dilemma. While European nations and human-rights groups broadly support...
Today, in Iceland and Sweden, girls consistently outperform boys in math and physics (see box). In Sweden the gap is widest in the remote regions in the north. That may be because women want to move to the big cities farther south, where they would need to compete in high-tech economies, while men are focused on local hunting, fishing and forestry opportunities, says Niels Egelund, a professor of educational psychology at the Danish University of Education. The phenomenon even has a name, the Jokkmokk effect, a reference to an isolated town in Swedish Lapland...