• He is alive and unhit by the same hazard that leaves one tall palm tree standing where a hurricane has passed.

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  • They are gorgeous, bright-eyed, brilliant girls: one tall, one short, pant legs dragging, torn leggings, sneakers that glow in the dark or light up with each step, boom boom boom.

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  • She also had a revelation while seated in front of one of the dioramas (my recollection is that it was the one of salmon-hunting Alaska brown bears standing seven feet tall): that the only reason we exercise dominion over the Earth, and creatures bigger and stronger than us, is because of our larger brains.

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  • That is a tall order, but not an impossible one.

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  • He mentioned that he is working on several stores that will look like the one on New York's Upper West Side, which has a tall glass entrance that stretches up to an all-glass ceiling.

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  • That was built when no one was used or understood tall structures, but it showed what could be done and just as importantly stretched the imagination.

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  • This is a very tall order, demanding as it does that Ranbaxy produce at least one blockbuster between now and then.

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  • It seems to me quite strange that we haven't wished for tall buildings for some time but it is one of the signifiers of a really terrific city.

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  • That will seem a tall order to some, since - as things stand - one of the governments is responsible for raising and supplying the vast majority of the cash that the other three have to spend.

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  • And Merida does make a break for it, on an escape route that takes her through spectacular settings one memorable shot finds her standing tall atop a towering rock pedestal then plunges her into a shady green glade, where blue will o' the wisps shimmer seductively.

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  • Cells used for solitary confinement are often windowless, but this one had a ribbonlike window that was seven inches wide and five feet tall.

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  • Earlier this week I could see a tall black column of smoke coming from a fire that the attacks have started in one of the rebel-held suburbs.

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  • "One of the great tricks that they use is to tell reporters these tall tales to get it into print, " said Nickell, who authored a book, Psychic Sleuths, that takes an in-depth look at the claims of 10 crime-solving psychics.

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  • Liddell thinks that 15 stories is possible before having to use other materials like steel but says that building codes are one of the main reasons we haven't seen more tall wooden buildings, "and more recently the economic downturn, " he adds.

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  • When it comes to physical features, height is one that is particularly difficult to change since your genetic background greatly predicts how tall you will ultimately become.

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  • Locker rooms and lunchrooms in Department of Sanitation garages are elaborately decorated with found lamps, couches, desks, chairs, sports memorabilia and one-of-a-kind junk, like a foot-tall skiing Santa that sings "Jingle Bells" and gyrates like Elvis.

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  • But then one day I discovered that, yes, indeed, I was definitely way, way, way too tall, even taller than my mother, who wasn't the tallest in our family.

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