Word: width
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...core. We reside in a group of mentally mercurial, sensitive fools. Which is why I feel I feel that Harvard is especially well suited for adopting the wide-leg pants trend with ease: because if we can’t embrace the extremes of pant width, then who can? THREE TIPS FOR LEG-WIDENING 1) Pair these pants with something tighter on top so that you don’t look like you were in the wild with only a burlap sack for clothing and a twin with whom you could only speak twin language. 2) Don?...
...Numbers HEALTH 3 Width, in cm, of disks of human heart-valve tissue British scientists say they have generated from stem cells-by far the most complex tissue ever grown artificially 10 Number of years the researchers estimate it will take before they can grow a heart from stem cells...
...Then there was the West Kowloon Cultural District, a $5 billion greenfield project to build a residential, commercial and cultural complex on 40 hectares of prime harborfront owned by the government. In a city where land is worth its width in gold, the scheme, launched by Tung, ran into legislative gridlock amid concerns of a sweetheart deal for the developer that would be chosen. Critics also questioned the government's wisdom-and expertise-in creating a costly arts hub without first gauging the level of public interest in it. Today, West Kowloon, possibly some of the most valuable real estate...
...into a movie, and we would be dragged, inevitably, into the action outside. Which would spoil the point: the unmistakable sense of both the ordinariness and the utter incomprehensibility of the experience of men in war. Outside, soldiers are racing across a patch of ground scarcely bigger than the width of a rugby field. Inside, the bunks are still warm; the bacon and tea are waiting. The men are gone for just three minutes. When they return, everything has changed...
...into a movie, and we would be dragged, inevitably, into the action outside. Which would spoil the point: the unmistakable sense of both the ordinariness and the utter incomprehensibility of the experience of men in war. Outside, soldiers are racing across a patch of ground scarcely bigger than the width of a rugby field. Inside, the bunks are still warm; the bacon and tea are waiting. The men are gone for just three minutes. When they return, everything has changed. When it was first staged in London (starring Laurence Olivier and directed by James Whale, who went off to Hollywood...