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THINKING UP WAYS of dodging the speed limit has always been one of those things that spice up a long drive through the boondocks. Keeping one eye on the highway and the other a half-mile up the road to sniff out a speed trap; perfecting the technique of hitting the brakes--but not too hard--when you see Smokey zap you with his radar gun; offering a revolutionary excuse to the trooper as he asks for your license and registration--these are all classic features of intercity travel in America...
...fifth Grand Challenge Cup triumph of all time was never in doubt after the national champion Crimson crew gained a length lead less than halfway through the one-mile, 50-yard course on the River Thames...
...Henley, there was no argument. The Tigers took a slight lead at the start of the race, but, by the quarter-mile point, the Crimson began to pull away, leading by a bow. Princeton tried to answer Harvard's whirlwind start with spurts between the half-mile to one-mile markers, but made no real impression...
Police were baffled this summer when a Harvard summer school student and a Cambridge man discovered two skulls on a north Cambridge street. The skulls, found in a plastic bag about a quarter mile from Porter Square, were partially caked with wax. After several weeks of investigation, police officials determined that the skulls were most likely part of some ritual service and unrelated to any crime...
...train from Moscow pulled into Sochi and disgorged passengers exhausted from the 850-mile, 30-hour journey. Waiting for them on the platform were about 100 residents of the lush Black Sea resort, some of them sweetly smiling, grandmotherly women who wanted nothing more than to share the genteel charm of their homes. "I have a nice little room to rent, a short walk to the sea, hot water, next door to a good restaurant," declared one. Two bone-weary women quickly began bidding furiously against each other for the room, even though neither had seen it, driving the price...