Luckily, moving to the states stunted my growth only a few inches so now I tower over a mere 60% of my peers like Lurch from The Adam's Family.
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It looked to be entirely overgrown, but Sopheng knew a trail that wound through the vines, bushes and branches to a hollow under the tower itself, where I was surprised to find not only ancient inscriptions but also fresh incense and candles.
"Of course, if it does go ahead it will mean that the next time a monarch reaches their 60th anniversary we'll have to build another tower -- but I don't suppose we'll have to worry about that for a while, " he joked.
From my office on the 17th floor I could see the South Tower and, beyond it, New Jersey, where I lived.
But I did hit one tower that buzzed in a batch of emails and one stayed on my mind for the week I was away: Why was fictional company Weyland Industries recruiting me on LinkedIn?
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The Vivat Trust plan to offer the Grade I listed Hadlow Tower as luxury holiday accommodation.
The resident mage is a student of astronomy and planetary science, so I decided the tower should have its own Foucault pendulum, attached to the 7th floor ceiling and swinging freely through open spaces in each floor below.
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Instead, I see one burning tower and smoked filled sky.
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We went rolling home, or rather, I went to climb a tower or two to prepare myself for the next meal.
Hopping out of the taxi at the Starbucks there after an amazingly quicker ride than normal in the still relatively empty streets, I took up elevator up Tower A to go see Feng Deng, who heads NLVC.
In upstate New York, I know there's concern because an airport control tower is being shut down because of the need to reduce spending by the FAA, and I know there's concern about this.
Third, in terms of the process of reaching national security decisions, I am adopting in total the Tower Report's model of how the NSC process and staff should work.
Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.
We take so much for granted in this city, and this is a reminder to us of the huge sacrifice they made, and I think about those people in the tower.
And I appointed a Special Review Board, the Tower Board, which took on the chore of pulling the truth together for me and getting to the bottom of things.
We worked up an appetite, and I pointed out a Chinese restaurant not far from the tower.
After all, as a curator, I had exhibition budgets, so that wasn't an ivory tower existence, believe me.
In 2009, I recorded Wilson Pickett's "634-5789" for Tower of Power's "Great American Soulbook" on a similar setup at a friend's home nearby.
No one was landing or taking off, but I still shouldn't have crossed that runway without permission from the tower.
My daughters and I tell each other stories in which we circle Chicago's skyscrapers or the Eiffel Tower on a witch's broom, waving at our friends and touching the stars.
Last year, I met Prime Minister Thaci in his office, on the second floor of a drab fourteen-story tower in central Pristina.
One of the stories that I enjoy the most was the guy from Harris Corporation who was indexing all the information off the radar tower at JFK airport.
One evening not long ago, I visited Paul Mainardi, a lawyer with a professorial manner who lives in Philadelphia, in an apartment tower with a wide view of the Delaware River.
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