Word: mi
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...Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter along with about ten journalists from CNN, the BBC, AP and other news outlets, being taken to the site where India yesterday shot down a Pakistani plane. We were flying over an exquisite but weird landscape, that has been turned into hundreds of miles of waterlogged marshland by the monsoons. From the air it would be impossible to tell where one country ends and the other begins, which may explain how some of these incidents happen...
Prodded in part by pressure from Davi and his supporters, Brazil in 1991 set aside 36,000 sq. mi. as a Yanomami homeland. Now mining interests and loggers want the territory cut into patches totaling 7,700 sq. mi. "They want us corralled like animals," says Davi. So when the radio in his hut calls him to a new battlefront, Davi is ready to go, no matter how far it takes him from the spirit world of forest and river...
...spent one night each in Grove City, PA, Big Rapids, MI, Eau Claire, WI, Bismarck, ND, and Glasgow, MT," he said...
...spent one night each in Grove City, PA, Big Rapids, MI, Eau Claire, WI, Bismarck, ND, and Glasgow, MT," he said...
Other Miccosukee moves are less pleasing to environmentalists. Besides building a casino on the Everglades' eastern edge, the tribe has sided with property holders in a disputed 8.5-sq.-mi. area a few miles to the south. There, some 1,400 landowners--many of them Cuban exiles--are resisting local government efforts to buy up their properties and flood them as part of the restoration. Surprisingly, the Miccosukees have sued in favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration...