• And from this weathering we get our height and depth, our texture and dimensions, our facets of character and being.

    BBC: Missing pieces in Utah

  • Not everyone loses height as they get older.

    WSJ: Health Journal: Yes, You Are Getting Shorter

  • GPs will be advised to use the body mass index, where the person's weight in kilograms is divided by his height squared in metres, to get a reading.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | GPs urged to help obese get slim

  • The court heard that the ambulance arrived at 12.06 GMT and then spent 30 minutes trying to get into the park as the gate and height restriction barrier were in place and locked.

    BBC: London Ambulance Service vehicle

  • You get lightheaded and floaty being outside at that height, a bit like falling in love, which is probably why Empire is the scene ender in classic love stories like An Affair to Remember, Sleepless in Seattle (in homage to Affair) and King Kong (yes, it is a love story).

    BBC: At 80, the Empire State Building strikes back

  • If life in these United States were a role playing game, the lowest difficulty setting would probably be a straight white male who is one standard deviation above mean height. (Unless you are a good enough athlete to get into the NBA being much taller than that is not so good) Tall people have never been denied the right to vote.

    FORBES: Second Circuit Declares Section 3 Of DOMA Unconstitutional

  • He worked in vineyard management for Heublein--he persuaded the company to get into winemaking--at the start of the region's explosion and the height of the grape boycotts.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

    FORBES: Picasso to Go

  • Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

    FORBES: Picasso to Go

  • Comedians tend to get the most laughs when they acknowledge truths about themselves, related to their race, religion, height or girth.

    WSJ: Heather Knight and Data: A Researcher and a Robot Walk Into a Bar... | Creating

  • Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico

  • He urged older farmers to "get a bit of help" where it would be of benefit to them, particularly when work needed done at height.

    BBC: Concern over rise in Northern Ireland farm deaths

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