Basketball's populist character derives in part from its tiny barriers to entry -- all you need is a ball and a hoop to practice alone, and a bona fide game can be played with just a pal or a small group of friends.
And a dedicated bus lane during peak hours, when the roads are clogged, does not help, as cars, motorcycles and even government, police and military vehicles illegally drive over the tiny concrete barriers that are supposed to block it off, further delaying the buses.
I realize that even through our tiny language barriers, I would be very, very lonely without Charlotte in this privileged student life.
Before visiting Kotzebue, Obama did a flyover of Kivalina, a tiny village on a barrier island that can be reached only by air.
But books — real books, not the virtual kind that show up on some tiny, hidden screen — lower that barrier to entry, providing a visual guarantee of common ground.
(Note to cringing readers: a secret barrier spared the tiny troika. Though the machines emitted crunching sounds, the researchers said, "no bugs were harmed in the experiment").
BILIN, West Bank — Every Friday for the past four and a half years, several hundred demonstrators — Palestinian villagers, foreign volunteers and Israeli activists — have walked in unison to the Israeli barrier separating this tiny village from the burgeoning settlement of Modiin Illit, part of which is built on the village's land.
Millions of tiny corals on the Great Barrier Reef have a new mommy an underwater robot christened the "LarvalBot".
This rather full-on marketing slogan was designed to lure young singles 15 kilometres off the coast of Rockhampton to a tiny island on the Great Barrier Reef.
If you take an otherwise fantastic image, but there is a tiny bit of a sidewalk barrier in the photo along the edge of the frame, for instance, are you really supposed to leave it there because some workshop leader told you to never crop?
