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...Florida East Coast Railway stretched some 500 miles from Jacksonville to the Keys, but the 150-mile link between Miami and Key West was Flagler's crowning achievement. Begun in 1905, it was an engineering marvel of bridges and viaducts, with 80 miles of track built over water and the longest of the bridges spanning seven miles. A Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed the tracks on the Keys, but the roadbed was widened and opened as a highway...
Perhaps the saddest dilemma facing South Florida is the plight of the refugees from Haiti. Law enforcement officials pick up about 500 Haitians a month on Florida's beaches, but probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation...
...most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles...
Three years ago, Captain Abruzzo had piloted Double Eagle II across the Atlantic, a pioneering trip that was half as far and twice as calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things...
Wiley--who normally excels on hilly courses--was running laboriously after the first steep incline, and then was passed by Beckford on an uphill just short of the two-mile mark. Beckford then went on to pass numerous other runners on the flat downhill stretches in what coach John Babington called "one of the most exceptional races of her season...