Word: mi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Population: 7,594 Size: 869 sq. mi. Total Personal Income: $155.91 million This included, among other things: Social Security: $16.5 million Medicare: $7.9 million Food Stamps...
...Farmington Hills, MI and Winthrop House...
Efforts to protect this natural laboratory began as early as 1934, when some islands were set aside as wildlife sanctuaries. The national park was created in 1959; in 1986 more than 27,000 sq. mi. of ocean in and around the archipelago was designated a Marine Resources Reserve, and four years later the inland waters also became an International Whale Sanctuary. The Galapagos have also been designated a unesco World Heritage Site and a Man and the Biosphere Reserve...
...COUNTY'S LEGAL ARGUMENTS MAY BE open to challenge, but its disaffection is real and deep. The third largest county in America, Nye is an immense wedge covering more than 18,000 sq. mi., about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined, but is occupied by only 20,000 people. Plenty of elbow room--except for the fact that the Federal Government owns 93% of the land. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls most of the valleys, the U.S. Forest Service most of the uplands. The Defense Department too claims huge chunks of the county, including the Nevada...
...opportunity for peace that Bosnia has seen in years. By the time the Bosnian Serbs had withdrawn most of their heavy guns from around Sarajevo last Wednesday night--thus meeting a NATO deadline and staving off renewed air strikes--the Croats and Muslims had recaptured nearly 1,500 sq. mi. of disputed real estate and whittled the portion of Bosnia controlled by the Serbs from about 65% to just under 50%. That land grab initially provoked fears that a possible peace agreement was in danger of being wrecked. But by week's end, the Croat-Muslim federation...