Word: mile
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...influx of refugees; however, conditions in these camps are nightmarish. Food and water are in high demand as the Goma (Zaire) camp consumes nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
...with flaws in a high-tech baggage system that have led to a 10 month delay in the opening of Denver's new International Airport, the city's mayor has decided to build an ordinary conveyer belt system. The Mile High airport has been losing $1 million a day since May 15 because of the failed futuristic baggage system. The alternative conventional system will run up a tab of $50 million -- a quarter of the cost of the computerized system...
...government of Serb-dominated Yugoslavia threatened to seal off its 300-mile border with Bosnia, essentially ostracizing the Bosnian Serbs it has been supporting in the civil war. Is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic serious about cracking down on the battling Bosnians? We'll see in the days and weeks to come, says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff. For now, Yugoslavia's pugnacious stance towards its cousins eases the pressure on Western countries to punish the Bosnian Serbs, who rejected a peace plan last week. "Milosevic is doing all the dirty work for (the West)," says Graff...
Imagine that one of Shoemaker-Levy 9's bigger pieces -- a mile or two in diameter -- is streaking in at 130,000 m.p.h., except that the target is not Jupiter but Earth. The mammoth chunk of rock and ice tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground with the force of 6 million H-bombs, gouging out a crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust...
...deadly collision could happen again, astronomer Eugene Shoemaker decided nearly two decades ago to use a small but powerful telescope to look for comets and asteroids headed this way. Five years ago, a member of Shoemaker's team saw a chunk of rock perhaps a third of a mile across that had just zipped by the planet at a distance of only 450,000 miles. There are about 2,000 large bodies that cross the orbit of Earth and could, in theory, hit us. That is why Shoemaker and his colleagues have for years been urging a stepped- up program...