"We could soon be measuring sea level rises in meters, not centimeters, " says Pearce.
Doctors call people obese if their weight in kilograms is more than 30 times bigger than their height in meters squared.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Mr. BURFOOT: Well, we expect him to make the team in the 1500 meters, and perhaps also in the 5000 meters, and he actually won both events last year in the World Championships.
But as he ticked through 500 meters in 61 seconds and then 600 meters in 1:14 (yes, he looked at the clock), he realized his tempo was fast enough.
The sales totaled nearly 460, 000 square meters in October and hit 950, 000 square meters in November 2010.
On Wednesday, figures from data provider China Real Estate Information Corporation showed that in terms of floor area, housing sales in the final week of May rose 39.6% from a week earlier to 107, 200 square meters in Shenzhen, and 27.1% over the previous week to 185, 400 square meters in Shanghai.
Kenteris, the Olympic 200 meters champion, and Thanou, runner-up in the 100 meters in Sydney, are due to attend an IOC disciplinary hearing on Monday.
He also retained his Paralympic title in the 400 meters in London.
In 2007, the vast new Tupi field in Brazilian coastal waters was discovered in 200 meters of water below a massive layer of salt in hugely inhospitable geological conditions.
In 2011 it co-founded e-Shang, a warehousing developer and operator based in Shanghai. e-Shang has grown from a portfolio of warehouses of 50, 000 square meters in 2011 to its current 1 million square meters of completed and developing projects, buoyed by the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country.
Viewed another way: There are 2, 675 square meters of tree cover per person in Connecticut, compared with 52, 275 square meters in Maine and 1, 300 in New Jersey.
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New home sales have been picking up for several months, and that trend continued in August, with sales, as measured in square meters, up 13.3 percent year on year, after a 14.5 percent rise in July.
On a cold, rainy afternoon, the American-record holder eased to victory in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.02 seconds into a headwind Saturday.
When 21-year-old Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold in the 100 meters on Saturday in world record time, he didn't even look winded.
Rupp, who placed 13th in the 10, 000 meters in Beijing four years ago, is a veteran of international competition who has benefited from top coaching and financial support as part of the Portland-based Nike Oregon Project.
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She finished second in the 800 meters at the worlds in South Korea last year.
The three grain carriers purchased by ADM will be 95, 000 ton vessels 237 meters in length with 12.5 meters of draft (depth).
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Up to 6 meters in diameter with tentacles over 50 meters long.
In the 1980s he stumbled across an opening in the earth that was 50 meters in diameter and realized this was no ordinary cave.
The coalition of consumer groups and charities fears increasing number of consumers unable to put money in their meters will disconnect from supplies this winter.
The spill would be measured in square meters, not square kilometers.
"The aircraft had to be able to land and take off in 125 meters, it also had to have a very low noise output and the aircraft needed to be able to accelerate rapidly up to 350 mph in order to get point to point at low level very quickly, " said Avcen managing director Mike Dacre.
Roger Black, who won silver in the 400 meters at the Atlanta Games in 1996, was part of a coterie of top-notch British runners who trained on a grass track at the University of Southampton.
The most significant one was Jamaican Usain Bolt shattering his own world record in the 100 meters at the IAAF world championships in Berlin.
This 1, 000-kilogram spacecraft will be similar to the two French Pleiades satellites now in orbit, with a 70-centimeter ground resolution in black and white and 2.8 meters in color.
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The team was able to confirm that the slightly-elongated 1999 RQ36 ranges some 480 to 511 meters in diameter, or at least a hundred meters smaller than previously thought.
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The "Tunguska Event" that flattened over 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 was caused by a stony asteroid only 50 meters in diameter exploding in the lower atmosphere.
At one point in his presentation, Hogan alluded to the value of smart utility meters in preventing theft, so of course I had to follow up on this.
Last year, Bolt won the Olympic 100 meters in a world record 9.69 seconds while lollygagging the last 20 meters.
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