Whether that is any more than a tall story remains to be seen.

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Even cycling is reaching new heights -- bike hacker Richie Trimble recently built a two-story-tall bike that soars above car traffic.

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The primary culprit behind the explosion appears to be the blowout preventer, a two-story-tall stack of valves on the seafloor that was built by Cameron in 2001 and designed to guillotine shut an out-of-control well.

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It is at least as much about the post experience story, the tall tales we tell each other and the passions that those experiences inspire in us.

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Thousands of people work at the Pemex headquarters, which includes a 54-story building that is nearly 700 feet tall.

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It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story.

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At least the Freudian symbolism of tall towers, even taller church spires and ruined homes remains, and the basic story is intact, in the spirited production that opened Monday night at the BAM Harvey Theater.

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