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...preferred alternative, "Committee Improvement Package 5," is one-half the width of Z and 35 feet lower, and has four fewer ramps and five fewer river piers...
Ever since Einstein, physicists have regarded the universe as four- dimensional. In addition to the three physical dimensions -- length, width and height -- there exists time, which is treated mathematically as though it were equivalent to the other three. But there is one important difference: while humans can travel freely in any physical direction -- up and down, left and right, back and forth -- they can go only forward in time, never backward...
...soldier standing nearby. Would-be rescuers tripped a similar explosive device, wounding 25. The munitions turned out to be antipersonnel cluster bombs that had been dropped earlier by U.S. aircraft. But after the smoke had cleared and an unchallenged French line lay strung across a third of Iraq's width, Paris felt it had grounds for some chest thumping. Said General Gilbert Forray, the army Chief of Staff: "We can never emphasize enough the excellence of our men and materiel...
...Harvard men's volleyball team came within a net's width of pulling off its biggest win of the year, but was thwarted at the threshold of victory...
Plans have been drawn for a new squash facility to be located next to the Varsity Club, which would include at least four international-width court and would have enough flexibility to allow the other narrow-width courts to be adapted to the international dimensions...