Does the design of a bridge have an effect on its weight-bearing capacity?

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

Each time we look at the medal table, we are encouraged to believe that we still have the capacity to punch above our weight in the world.

BBC: Brand GB �C a good games

The Secretary of State has not attached weight to the impairment of Senator Pinochet's capacity to remember remote events, save insofar its recent deterioration is symptomatic of brain damage having a wider significance: see sub-paragraph (6) below.

BBC: Straw's statement in full

Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.

ECONOMIST: Pushing the envelope

This has changed not only because of China, India and Brazil having much more weight around the table but also countries in Africa, in the Caribbean, in the Pacific Ocean now have the capacity to negotiate.

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