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...track he especially enjoys his original event, the mile, though he concentrated on the half-mile last year. In the shorter distance he turned in one of his best times, a sizzling 1:54 in the first leg of a distance medley relay, contributing to a school record. Coach McCurdy hasn't decided on Johnson's event for the upcoming season, but he remembers his surprise at Johnson's turning in such a fast time while in his usual injured state...
...Columbia was lofted into a 137-mile high orbit by 6.4 million pounds of thrust from its three liquid fuel engines and by two rocket boosters, which trailed a thick column of white smoke as they burned their solid fuel...
...place four decades ago. In 1941, fearful that the Germans might launch a series of airborne biological-warfare attacks against the civilian population, British authorities asked scientists at the Porton Down bacteriological research unit to conduct a series of experiments. The site: Gruinard Island, a bleak, uninhabited, 1½ mile-long patch of land that lies just 600 yds. off the west coast of northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better known as anthrax, which has lethal and well-documented effects on both animals and humans. Anthrax is believed to have caused the fifth plague in Egypt...
...soon they welcomed her as their princess and friend. The trip to Wales last week by Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, was their first formal appearance since their marriage last July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties with a zest that belied her past head-down shyness. At every stop, there were excited cries of "Princess Diana! Princess Diana!" Said Charles gesturing...
Wiley, whose greatest strength lies in her uphill running ability, took advantage of the demanding course's numerous inclines to establish an early lead by the 1 1/2 mile mark. By the two-mile point, she led a small pack of frontrunners by 15 to 20 yards--a lead she relinquished with only one-half mile to go to Debbie Seeger of Rutgers...