Word: mi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least 300 people, many of them farmers from the surrounding hills, clogged the area's few hospitals, sharing beds with other victims while they awaited treatment for shock and burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently described by M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as a "Ripley's Believe It or Not event...
...region surrounding the plant will continue to be dangerous for years to come, the report says, with radiation levels as much as 2,500 times normal. Officials at last week's news conference said that 135,000 people have been evacuated from an area of more than 300 sq. mi. around the plant. Previous / estimates were 100,000. The evacuees will eventually be housed in 52 villages, most of them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people...
...west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...
...Silicon Valley, California has long been the place where the newest manifestations of the American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high...
...Philmont Scout Ranch, a wide-open, 241-sq.-mi. Boy Scout camp in northern New Mexico, 15,000 scouts each year learn to set up tents and brave the elements. Rain and wind, bugs and varmints -- no problem. But bears...