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  • Others say travelers have to have more tolerance for people with long legs that don't fit into tight airline seat pitch or large girth that won't squeeze into a 17.2-inch-wide seat.

    So Who Gets the Armrest? Scott McCartney 2011

  • Armed with today's 11-inch-wide leg pads, inch-thick shoulder and clavicle protectors, massive catching mitts that measure 18 inches from the heel to far edge of the webbing, and titanium-reinforced and composite-fiber masks, goalies have little reason to fear injury.

    Have Goalies Become Too Dominant? Mike Sielski 2011

  • Andrew Yeadon for The Wall Street Journal Priced at $19,995, the Diavel hits a lot of the power cruiser notes: a stretched wheelbase, a 28-degree rake, a 30.3-inch seat height, a 41-degree lean angle, a hilariously fat 8-inch-wide rear tire.

    An Italian Cruiser 2011

  • Hot spring water bubbled up from the bottom and spilled over a set of inch-wide notches around the top.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • So he has made his own for his house—simple, 2-inch-wide cylindrical bars of solid aluminum or stainless steel that appear to be "just part of the door," he says.

    Humble Items, High Style Sarah Nassauer 2011

  • In the end, they came up with a 23-inch-wide single with a side basket that converts into a 29-inch double that can hold two car seats or two stroller seats facing in either direction.

    The Boss of Big Bold Baby Buggies Laura Stevens 2011

  • The Diavel hits a lot of the power cruiser notes: a stretched wheelbase 62.6 inches, a whopping 6.3 inches longer than the wheelbase of the Ducati 1198, a 28-degree rake, a 30.3-inch seat height, a 41-degree lean angle, a hilariously fat 8-inch-wide rear tire.

    Italy's Multicultural Motorcycle Dan Neil 2011

  • More photos and interactive graphics Unless a technological solution can be found, the arcane physics of crude flow may force the multibillion dollar, 48-inch-wide steel pipeline to shut down—and determine the fate of the largest oil field ever found in the U.S.

    Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk Russell Gold 2011

  • The device, which weighs 13.4 ounces is not only lighter than the 1.6 pound iPad, it's also smaller, measuring 7.5 by 4.9 by .5 inches which makes it quite a bit narrower than the 7.47 inch-wide iPad.

    Larry Magid: Samsung to Challenge Apple With Innovative 'Galaxy Tab' Android Tablet 2010

  • The device, which weighs 13.4 ounces is not only lighter than the 1.6 pound iPad, it's also smaller, measuring 7.5 by 4.9 by .5 inches which makes it quite a bit narrower than the 7.47 inch-wide iPad.

    Larry Magid: Samsung to Challenge Apple With Innovative 'Galaxy Tab' Android Tablet 2010

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