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From a distant hill, the 40-mile-long multicolored ribbon, snaking through the Iowa cornfields, looks like the ultimate outdoor crazy sculpture. At hub and t-shirt level it turns out to be the American version of the Tour de France-sans hype, heartbreak, commercials, competition or prizes. It is the annual amateur week-long bicycle marathon from the Missouri to the Mississippi, as amiable a happening as any to be found...
...mile-long glacier originates high in a watershed east of Valdez, where it is fed by massive snowfalls. From there, it flows inexorably down toward Columbia Bay, where it terminates on a shoal across the fjord in shallow water. Like all glaciers that end at the sea, Columbia continually "calves" or drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic...
...wealth, Saudi Arabia is a very vulnerable nation. Though it is one-fourth the size of the U.S. and has a 1,560-mile-long coastline, its population is generally estimated at only about 5 million.* Now, for practically the first time in their history, the Saudis have something worth defending. As Saudi government officials never tire of saying, their country is virtually unprotected. It is probably true that never has so much been defended by so little...
...immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico, diamonds in the Congo. By the outbreak of World War I, they controlled 75% to 80% of all the silver, copper and lead in the world...
...Gaullist leader and Paris mayor. Bouncing out of a Strasbourg hotel at 10 a.m. last week, he shouted to his aides, "Mount your horses!", climbed into a steel-gray Peugeot and led a 15-car caravan on the last leg of what has been a six-month, 30,000-mile-long barnstorming-style campaign all around France. Arriving at 10:30 in the town of Neudorf, he started pumping hands right away and was soon off on a day-long dash that took him to 15 campaign events within a 50-mile radius. In Neudorf, he entered...