Word: winded
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...offering solidly constructed, customized treetop retreats which, for prices from $15,000, may be designed to fit almost any species of tree. While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses - there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves - few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehouse- company.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company...
...m.p.h. Speed of the wind at Powell's back, which was slower than the wind that helped American Tim Montgomery set the old record...
...plot is based on the concerns of veterans from the nuclear industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room...
...critical home set versus defending Ivy champs Cornell loomed to protect Harvard’s tie in the loss column with first-place Princeton. But in the wind and rain at Soldiers Field, the Crimson lost both games and its chance at the division title...
Undergraduates headed out to the Kerry rally in Boston’s Copley Square, where drizzling skies and a chilly wind reflected an increasingly cloudy mood in the Democratic camp. Performances by the Black Eyed Peas and others briefly buoyed the crowd, but spirits dwindled as the night wore on. By midnight, a defeat was all but certain...