Word: yds
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UCLA geochemist Frank Kyte thinks he may have found not just the answer but also a piece of the thing itself: a tiny meteorite fragment, a tenth of an inch across, that was extracted from a 65-million-year-old geological layer under more than 50 yds. of sediment at the bottom of the Northern Pacific. In a report in the current issue of Nature, Kyte notes that the little chunk contains concentrations of metals (such as iridium and nickel) and mineral textures that clearly show that it is extraterrestrial and that it probably was once part of a much...
Todd's wife Kim, along with his parents, followed him to Durham, where they all checked into a double room at the Brookwood Inn, about 500 yds. from the Duke Hospital entrance. On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure." Without a new liver soon, he would die. The family was in no mood to learn, as they did that afternoon from Trotter, that PHP wanted Todd moved to a hospital where it had a capitation contract limiting their financial exposure. Trotter would not tell Kim exactly where they wanted...
...future for the pretty amazing new stuff that's going to be added to the mobile phone," says Martin Heath, a telecommunications specialist for consultants KPMG in London. "There will be tremendous battles for who controls the value of this chain. Symbian has the advantage, but it's 10 yds. in a marathon, not 10 yards in the 100-yd. dash...
Here's this little place, 90 minutes north of Atlanta, where a woman named Catherine Evans Whitener (1880-1964) made a tufted chenille bedspread, and then another, and another, and then someone made a machine that did it faster, and then in 1996, 1.641 billion sq. yds. of carpet were shipped to every place from Hackensack to Hong Kong...
About 100 yds. from the wall of Westside Middle School's gym is Cole Hill, an elevation surrounded by gravel and blacktop roads. It was near here that Mitch and Drew found a site to park the van. They had a clear view of the school's playground, enclosed by chain-link fence, a few hundred feet up the road. Three feet of sage grass, kudzu vines and an array of sapling oaks, sweet gums and acorn trees provided cover. For Mitch and Drew, the spot was perfect...