• They're so convoluted and measurement defying, they're often sold by the pound instead of board foot.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'A Splintered History Of Wood'

  • If another winter passes, more than half the original value of the logs--pegged at 10 cents a board foot--will have been lost.

    FORBES: Hug a Dead Tree Today

  • Condor Ferries has promised to look into the way it cares for animals brought on board by foot passengers, following a complaint.

    BBC: Ferry's animal care is questioned

  • Last January Coca-Cola started airing an ad for Sprite featuring skaters doing some gnarly tricks, such as the "frontside frontfoot impossible" (skater jumps up 2 feet or more and wraps board around front foot) and the "540 backside grab" (involves spinning body 1 times in the air, and grabbing board behind leg).

    FORBES: Later, Skater

  • It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race.

    NPR: Reporter Shares Account Of Bomb Blasts At Marathon

  • Cat is adding seven new product lines by 2000, including handlers and knuckleboom loaders used in the Southeast U.S. The 1997 acquisition of Sweden's Skgsjan has led to the marvelous new 570 Harvester, a six-wheel beast that grabs a fallen tree, delimbs it and cuts it to 5-foot lengths for board--in ten seconds.

    FORBES: Sharpening the claws

  • In the first year, local health authorities would simply foot the bill for the paramedics who are on board.

    BBC: News Online

  • But to do that, first you have to wrestle the bar down low enough to hook it into a waist harness, then maneuver the board in front of you and slip your feet into the foot straps, all while keeping the kite under control.

    FORBES: Hook In and Hold On

  • The Red Bulls got on the board in the 51st minute, though the goal actually came off the foot of Vancouver defender Greg Klazura for an own goal.

    WSJ: Miller's goal beats short-handed Red Bulls, 2-1

  • Udo Barckhausen, a geophysicist on board the Sonne, told CNN that the 7-meter (22-foot) buoys are programmed to detect changes in the seabed, and send alerts to the Indonesian mainland.

    CNN: story.bouy.jpg

  • At HP's bright, pristine data center in Palo Alto, Calif. customers see 324 computer servers, each shrunk to a circuit board and nested in a stack with 30 to 40 others in 6-foot-6-inch-high cabinets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He knocked in his 8-foot birdie putt, assumed he was ahead, and then never looked at another board the rest of the day.

    NPR: Leonard In 3-Way Tie For The Lead At Innisbrook

  • And at the very end of the encore, I remember I put the tape right near his peddle board, John Spencer's peddle board, and I remember he looked right at me and he just smashed the tape with his foot.

    NPR: Keeping it Primitive with The Black Keys

  • What he got was Sleighride, a 77-foot luxury yacht that on its maiden voyage in 1996 hit 24 knots--with 16 people on board, including 4 of Gosnell's grandchildren.

    FORBES: Mine's Lighter

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