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...almost fallen off a couple of times already, and I’ve only been here one night.” But some students praised the increased thickness of the new mattresses. “The mattresses are really comfortable so that makes me care less about the width,” said Veronica T. Golin ’07. About a dozen students have already e-mailed CurrierWire—Currier’s e-mail open list—looking for an additional mattress or a larger replacement. “People are definitely more desperate for double...
...test project to make runway markings more visible that was begun at T. F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I., last year was so successful at reducing incursions that the agency is taking the program nationwide. The project made a new brighter, bigger centerline and increased the width of the yellow bars from 6 to 12 lines on a black background to increase the contrast on the "hold short" markings (where planes stop before entering the runway). The FAA has ordered that the same changes will be required at the nation's biggest 72 airports by June...
...hope you've heard the great news, America. We are winning. Yesterday, the New York Times made an announcement. They're reducing the width of their newspaper by an inch and a half. That's an inch and a half less of state secrets revealed every day." --STEPHEN COLBERT...
...Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...
...close succession, as Yale (5:46.2) eked out a three-seat win over Princeton (5:47.2), and the Crimson (5:47.3) followed just 0.1 seconds behind the Tigers.Over 500 meters, Harvard jumped both Princeton and Yale by close to a length, falling just short of Princeton by the width of a bow ball.“We certainly had momentum coming into the finish,” Yu said, “and it just seemed like we didn’t go early enough and came up short. We should have had more initiative and focus in the first...