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At 4,200 ft (1,280 m), it was the world’s longest single span until New York’s Verrazano Narrows Bridge surpassed it in 1964, but few would deny that it remains the most beautiful suspension bridge in the world.
And the Wall Street Journal has a stat about non-holiday Web activity that drives home the point that some sort of benchmark has been passed: the total worth of the investment firm Charles Schwab has just surpassed that of Merrill Lynch.
The mission's official Web site has reportedly surpassed 150 million hits in five days, making it the busiest site in the history of the Web.
(His urinal in the gents at Pharmacy,which he owns, a vitrine stuffed with detritus, is a masterpiece of interior décor with attitude .) He is, for sure, the leader of the YBA pack, even if he has been surpassed in sheer nastiness by his colleagues, the Chapman twins, Sarah Lucas, Alain Miller.
Among available statins, lovastatin remained the therapeutic choice through 1996, after which it was surpassed by other statins, particularly simvastatin and then atorvastatin (Figure 2).