As you'll be reminded at least once every game, Kinect recommends (and at times requires) that you be six to eight feet away from the sensor while in play, with no coffee table or ottoman in your way.

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If your job makes you feel dreary, it could be time to introduce vegetation to your personal breathing zone -- an area of six to eight cubic feet (0.2 cubic meters) -- where we spend most of our working day.

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Byrd's round was his best of the year, and he capped it off with a string of birdies that began with a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-three sixth green and ended with a wedge to six feet of the pin on eight.

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On loan from a Mexican museum, the work is nearly eight feet high by more than six feet wide, and depicts Depression-racked New York in four tiers: skyscrapers, a homeless shelter, underground pipes, and a bank vault.

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