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This situation is analogous to Cosmos Ndeti's or Uta Pippig's reaching the finish line of the 26.2 miles Boston Marathon after months of training only to be told that the officials have changed the length of the race while they were running and now they need to run an extra mile...
BOSTON--As Agassiz Professor of Zoology Steven Jay Gould was bringing his History of Life lecture to a close yesterday at noon, more than 10,500 runners set off from Hopkinton, Mass. for a 2602/.2 mile rumble into Boston's Copley Square...
...ready to go for it, with all the pain, sweat, questioning and, finally, joy that come along with being able to call yourself a marathoner for the first time. There are lots of ways to mark birthdays, but how many opportunities do you have to celebrate with a 26.2 mile run? So, for all you astrologists and numerologists out there, here's our prediction: we will be going 26.2 on the 21st and 25th before...
...experience with the kinds of cracks that are produced when an entire world is frozen over. More to the point, the bergs are small, rising just 300 to 600 ft. above the surrounding ice. Since only 10% of an iceberg shows above the water, that means these measure a mile or so from top to bottom--and so, therefore, does the planet-wide ice crust from which they came. On the scale of a 2,000-mile-wide moon, that's not much of a crust...
...Mall in Washington is one of the great urban spaces in the world, a two-mile-long line of green anchored by the U.S. Capitol at one end, the Lincoln Memorial at the other, and with the Washington Monument marking the center. On its flanks are groves of trees, clusters of monuments, even museums. But its central vista is an astonishment of economy. Stand at Lincoln's feet and you can see all the way to the Capitol, your gaze interrupted by nothing but the majestic spike of the Washington Monument...