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  • Yoda battles for the soul swords in Soulcalibur IV … It seems like everything's digital these days, even drugs … Swarms of robots could do the dangerous work for us … Learn how to say "hundred-meter dash" in Mandarin … Can a car run on nothing but air?

    Coffee Break: August 8 2008

  • But then, on September 2, Wilma Rudolph won gold in the hundred-meter dash, enthralling not only fans inside the Stadio Olimpico but also millions of Americans back home, who viewed the event hours later on CBS.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Jai swung her feet casually, as if there werent a hundred-meter drop below them.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • But then, on September 2, Wilma Rudolph won gold in the hundred-meter dash, enthralling not only fans inside the Stadio Olimpico but also millions of Americans back home, who viewed the event hours later on CBS.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • But then, on September 2, Wilma Rudolph won gold in the hundred-meter dash, enthralling not only fans inside the Stadio Olimpico but also millions of Americans back home, who viewed the event hours later on CBS.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • The curriculum also included competitions in donning gas masks, thousand-meter cross-country runs, hundred-meter swims, pull-ups, and throwing simulated hand grenades.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • But then, on September 2, Wilma Rudolph won gold in the hundred-meter dash, enthralling not only fans inside the Stadio Olimpico but also millions of Americans back home, who viewed the event hours later on CBS.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • They completed the hundred-meter hike through the tall grass to a waiting passenger van.

    Extreme Measures Vince Flynn 2009

  • Such a method is slower than jumping right into the hundred-meter dash, but acknowledges the reality that most of us can't go from crawl to sprint without interim stages.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • As a good friend from UNHCR recently told me, "It will not be a hundred-meter dash, but a marathon."

    Khaled Hosseini: A Renewed Global Commitment to Afghan Refugees 2008

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