Many of its keys (including, alas, the period and the comma) are mere slivers, half the width of normal keys.
A trench, 4 feet long and 2 feet deep, had been dug in advance, taking up half the width of the main street.
These fissures are up to five miles across and half a mile deep, or roughly half the width and depth of the Grand Canyon.
"It's hypnotic," said Mr. Almereyda, a New Yorker whose favorite part of the camera is the tiny plastic lens, which is half the width of a pencil eraser.
"Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide; it's half the width of the Washington Beltway," Mr. Netanyahu said.
Forty years later, we receive instead a $1,200 coach seat half the width of a human pelvis, a mismatched pair of circus peanuts and the in-flight director's recut of "Bicentennial Man".
In Venice, the razor clams are half the width of those sold here, sometimes no longer than three inches, and served grilled on the half shell with a gloss of butter.
LIGO's two detectors -- one in Hanford, Wash., the other in Livingston, La .-- will be able to spot a change as slight as half the width of an atom along the 2.5-mile-long paths traveled by the detectors' laser beams.
After all, they take up half the width of Second Avenue, are about three stories high and a block long, stretching between 68th and 69th Streets in one case, and 72nd and 73rd Streets in another.
