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...perimeter defender in the Ivies can keep him out of the lane. He can penetrate and get to the basket at will and is, in addition, accurate shooting from long range. According to unconfirmed reports, he can also touch the ground without bending over. He uses that freakish wingspan to lead the league in steals, boasting over three thefts per game a year ago. Zoller has really cute curly hair, and was the top rebounder in league play last season...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06 IN LEHMAN’S TERMS: Around the Ivies | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...CLAIM: A missile or smaller plane--not Flight 77--struck the Pentagon because the size of two holes (in Ring C and Ring E) were too small to have been made by a 757, which has a wingspan of nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conspiracy Theories: Setting The Record Straight | 9/12/2006 | See Source »

...Pentagon. As the film points out--and this is a tent-pole issue among 9/11 conspiracists--the crash site doesn't look right. There's not enough damage. The hole smashed in the Pentagon's outer wall was 75 ft. wide, but a Boeing 757 has a 124-ft. wingspan. Why wasn't the hole wider? Why does it look so neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...spacecraft, SpaceShipOne), took off from an airfield in a small town in Kansas; 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. and 23,000 miles later, the aviation world had reached another milestone. GlobalFlyer is so light (at takeoff, its weight is 83% fuel) and so aerodynamic (with a 114-ft. wingspan) that it has to use drag parachutes to help it get back down to the ground. Next: On the Move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Up and Away | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

Despite the precautions, none of the experts were worried about the overall reliability of the 747, which some pilots affectionately call "Fat Albert" because of its bulging profile. Many consider it one of the safest airliners ever built. It is also the largest, with a wingspan of 196 ft. and a length of 232 ft. Boeing has delivered 618 of the planes to 68 airlines since production began in 1966. Only 15 of the jumbos have been lost, and none of the previous accidents were attributed to structural or mechanical defects. Still, the sundered tail sections that dropped into Sagami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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