However, the bedroom doorways in the single-story structure are cut just 22 inches (about a half meter) wide.
The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines --fitting safeguards, perhaps.
Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.
The two clouds were separated by about half a meter, and were constantly affected by a combination of lasers and magnets, which had the effect of maintaining the entanglement for about an hour.
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Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.
Still, we bet people still fall for the hype -- oh hey, if you're looking for the ultimate in sound, we've got half a meter of oxygen-free, triple-wrapped double-insulated Sonically Shielded AmpliSized Egyptian Llama cable here that we'll part ways with for just a couple grand.
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At current prices, that will only buy half a square meter of an apartment in downtown Beijing.
ADM, which the company claims is simple to set up and operate, has been designed to provide half-hourly meter reading data direct to suppliers through secure information gateways.
Within a few minutes' walk of Meyer's home is Liulichang, Beijing's 750-meter (half-mile) antiques street which has flourished since the Yuan dynasty 800 years ago.
"The Afghan nan (the local bread) is almost a meter-long and half-an-inch thick, " Ashok wrote in a typical post on his blog.
For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
James (Jim) Foster, an animal breeder, has 187, 500 furry creatures in just one of his kennels, a half-filled 6, 000-square-meter building in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
The storm caused two-meter-high (six-and-a-half-feet) drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon.
The owner of a two-meter wide clock shop, for example, only surrendered half of his small space to Barbar, keeping the other half for himself.
The Hawaiian company Kona Blue raises a type of yellowtail from eggs to harvest in 3, 000 cubic-meter cages tethered to the sea floor, one-half mile off the coast of Kona.
The day's first track and field gold medal went to Ethiopia's Meseret Defar, who bested Kenya's Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot by less than half a second to win the women's 5, 000-meter race.
The other half: He runs a truly virtual company, mostly from his 18-meter sailboat in San Francisco Bay.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact website, which grades the accuracy of politicians' statements, gave the Obama campaign's accusation that "Mitt Romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries" a "half-true" rating on the organization's Truth-O-Meter.
Most 800-meter runners are pushing themselves with every stride because sprinting a half-mile is a taxing, painful ordeal.
But none of them ever made anything half as revolting as Mr. Hirst's 1996 "Crematorium, " a 2.4-meter-diameter giant ashtray, filled with smouldering cigarette butts.
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