Fifty-two feet wide and a hundred and sixty feet long, the chute can generate sixty-five thousand pounds of drag.

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The truces continued, even multiplied, while we were sent "down the chute" through thick anti-aircraft fire with our bombs against truck convoys and "up the hills" with our guns blazing for meaningless hilltops in a shooting gallery of paltry, minuscule efforts that ended in defeat.

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Among the first out of the chute and into the hands of PC World testers were Dell's 500-MHz Inspiron 7500 R500VT, Hewlett-Packard's 500-MHz OmniBook 4150, and Gateway's 450-MHz Solo 9300 (see link at right).

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"It's pretty much a no-fall zone, " Jennifer shouts to seven skiers clinging to the mountain above a slender, jagged 53-degree chute called Two Smokes.

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Although river levels are lower this year because of a low snow pack, the Merced flows rapidly through a V-shaped canyon and chute channels, Gediman said.

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Slow-motion replays suggested that the object might have been a heat-resistant tile protecting a compartment where the shuttle's drag chute is stored.

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"It's given the industry a jolt, " said Chris Chute, research manager at IDC's digital-imaging practice.

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