When people drink the water, the worm begins to grow inside them and can reach one meter in length.
For sheer excitement, nothing beats being aboard a 19-meter in a blow.
Gary Huss, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii, says chondrule formation would appear to be a required step to form planetary bodies of more than a meter in size.
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Far better would be to have a smart meter in the home that told you how much electricity each appliance was using at that instant, and how much it was costing you.
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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.
To find the energy hogs, you simply plug each appliance into the meter in turn, and then plug the meter into the wall socket and leave it switched on for a fixed time.
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When my husband and I were furnishing the house, we were scrambling to pack (I still can picture the movers leaning against their truck, picking their fingernails with box cutters, while we rushed around trailing rolls of bubble wrap and hearing the ticking of the many-dollars-per-hour meter in our heads).
Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
Bobby Kersee continues to coach Olympic-caliber athletes, including Dawn Harper, who today won silver in the 100 meter hurdles race, after winning gold in that event in Beijing in 2008, and Allyson Felix, who ran 5th in the 100-meter sprint in London and will compete in the finals of the 200-meter race, her best event, tomorrow.
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Dana Vollmer, the first woman in history to swim the 100-meter butterfly in under 56 seconds took Gold at the London Olympics.
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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.
Six gold medals were decided in canoeing, with Attila Vajda of Hungary winning the men's 1, 000 meter singles in 3:50.46, taking a step up on the podium after his bronze four years ago in Athens.
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.
Phelps finished the 200-meter medley in 1:54.27, just off his Olympic record of 1:54.23 set in Beijing.
The other half: He runs a truly virtual company, mostly from his 18-meter sailboat in San Francisco Bay.
The base model even has a fare meter included in its dashboard.
While he failed to win a medal there, he smashed a record to win the men's 400-meter race in the Paralympic Games a few weeks later.
HARPS, which sits on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope in Chile, allows researchers to detect the tiny gravitational wobbles that orbiting planets induce in their parent stars.
On the fifth of this month, the Wangcheng district government signed a contract with Broad Group, a local firm, which promised to put up the 838-meter tower in seven months.
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The industrious Dutch have strong enough dikes and clever enough engineering to survive a one meter rise in the oceans, even though two-thirds of their country lies below sea level.
Nearly all of the 972 meter readers in Southern California Edison's territory accepted retirement packages or were transferred within the company, says Pat Lavin of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
The time it took Bob Hayes, who died this fall at the too-young age of 59, to cover 100 meters during his anchor leg of the 400-meter relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
According to an Arbitron spokesman, the meter samples in Philadelphia had fewer persons between 18 and 34 than the company would have liked, and the situation in New York was set to be the same.
While the U.S. men may have lost a step in the sprints, that didn't stop Aries Merritt from taking perhaps the most hotly contested event in the Olympics, the 110-meter hurdles, in a personal-best 12.92.
The 20-year-old Agnel, just a day after swimming an amazing anchor leg in leading France to victory in the men's 4x100 meter free style relay, routed the field in the 200-meter freestyle.
When Gilbert Johnson retired as the head of a microwave communications company near San Francisco, California, four years ago, he and his wife, Donna, planned to cruise the Panama Canal in their 17-meter motorboat and settle in Annapolis, Maryland.
At the London 2012 Olympics, Lopez competed once again in the 5, 000-meter event and finished in 10th place.
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Or kids can be taken off parents' hands by capable babysitters, to frolic in the 15-meter pool or take part in nature walks, play board games or draw in a leather-bound blank book provided by the lodge, with complimentary crayons.
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