• He completed his first, a half-scale replica of Noah's Ark, in 2004, and used it to take tourists on canal trips, before beginning work on a full-scale version in 2008.

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  • Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.

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  • It might be able to demand 6% royalties or more for something ready for large-scale trials, versus half that for a totally unproven treatment.

    FORBES: Do-It-Yourselfer

  • More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

    NPR: Tornadoes Touch Down In Oklahoma And Arkansas

  • After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.

    ECONOMIST: Our pick of the best, including music by Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Even as the integration process is proceeding well, we expect temporary business impact from this large-scale merger but we are optimistic that the second half of 2013 will see more revenue growth momentum and cost synergies.

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  • Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne described Ms Smith's plans as "half-baked", and said the government had been in denial about the scale of the knife crime problem.

    BBC: Shock tactics for knife carriers

  • It was only half the size of the other two American manufacturers, and scale was becoming all-important.

    ECONOMIST: Motor industry

  • The strongest tornado, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, tracked for nearly an hour and a half along a 38-mile path from Chickasha through south Oklahoma City and the suburbs of Bridge Creek, Newcastle, Moore, Midwest City and Del City.

    CNN: Oklahoma City area was hammered by EF5 tornado in 1999

  • Today, less than 30 percent of students in the bottom of the income scale enroll in a four-year school, and of those less than half graduate.

    FORBES: Bad Relationships Don't Stand in Poor Women's Way. Bad Policies Do.

  • Prosecutors say Mr. Smith and Mr. Halloran tried to bribe Republican officials into giving Mr. Smith a spot on the party's ticket for mayor, in a wide-ranging plot that eventually ensnared half a dozen New York politicians and has raised questions about the scale of corruption in Albany.

    WSJ: Politicians Plead Not Guilty

  • In a report released Tuesday, CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project (TMP) forecast half of those hurricanes will develop into major hurricanes ranked as Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.

    CNN: 'Very active' hurricane season forecast

  • Half a continent away from the headquarters of the Australian industry in Adelaide, the Western Australians tend to be smaller-scale producers, independent of the four big wine companies that dominate the business.

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