Word: mile
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...Jingles? Say, isn't that a dangerously silly name for a character taking part in a bold exercise in terror? Especially when he's a cute widdle mousey? Well, Stephen King's The Green Mile is an unusual book, and not just because it is being published serially, in 19th century fashion, with the first installment having hit bookstores in March and new volumes following monthly. As risky as any publishing venture that involves Stephen King's name in almost 200-point type--which is to say not so risky at all--The Green Mile has become a publishing sensation...
...ATHLETIC PEAK] Once held Russell, Kansas, record in the half-mile...
DIED. VANGELIA GUSHTEROVA, 84, who was known as "Vanga," a prophet venerated by politicians and peasants; in Rupite, Bulgaria. By her account, Vanga was hurled more than a mile by a storm at age 12--which left her blind but may have opened up worlds hidden and future. She dreamed in 1941 of an "ancient horseman" who foretold the Nazi march into the Balkans...
...makeshift waiting center set up in the auditorium of Grady Memorial Hospital, a mile from the park, shaken relatives and friends of victims gathered in search of information about their loved ones. From time to time, a Red Cross nurse would appear and read out names written in blue ballpoint pen on her rubber gloves. Much of her news was reasonably good: most patients had only minor injuries. Meanwhile, those waiting traded stories about the night. "It didn't seem like a real bomb to me," said John, a young British man who was crying as he waited for news...
...point where the road forks left toward the Coast Guard station and Moriches Bay, the people who were allowed to pass park their cars in a baseball field and walk a mile or so in the hot dust. License plates read Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The TV people have come with huge trucks and satellite dishes, some of which are the size of dinner plates and sit atop tall poles; they are connected to the trucks by red wires in coils. A parking lot full of these trucks looks like a moon landing at rush hour...