Diffrient was a frustrated industrial designer with pioneering achievements, including the first chair whose height could be adjusted via a gas piston and spring, and a fold-up office table that replaced screws and plates with simple interlocking hinges.

FORBES: The Chair Men

Another fracas erupted over the design of Oriental Plaza, whose size and height infringed local planning rules.

CNN: Master of Guanxi

She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen

It was a poor spot kick from Saha, whose effort lacked power and was struck at a good height for the keeper.

BBC: Sport - Football - Everton 2-1 Chelsea

For Spurs' second goal, Berbatov used his height and strength to head on to Defoe, whose brilliant first touch carried the ball forward before he crashed his shot past Kiraly.

BBC: Defoe has scored six league goals for Spurs this season

In the largely Kurdish city of Batman, Mufide Agaya, whose son is among thousands of Kurds who went missing at the height of the conflict in the mid-1990s, agrees.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and the Kurds

In 2011, a similar agreement with Assad or with the Palestinian Authority, (whose budget is largely financed from international aid), would be the height of strategic insanity.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Caution: Storm Approaching

In Jerusalem, he used 10, 000 workers to construct the Roman world's largest religious center, the renovated Second Temple, a campus whose great size is vividly conveyed through a mural that depicts its main plaza's depth and its colonnades' height, dwarfing the people under them.

WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El