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...result is a continuous and inefficient scramble for scarce resources, as planners lurch uncertainly from one high-priority project to the next. One such enterprise is the 2,000-mile-long Baikal-Amur Mainline railway across Siberia. This has become an engineer's nightmare, as any study would have shown. Huge stretches freeze solid in the winter and then become quagmires during summer...
...light rain is falling upon the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius in Zagorsk. The monastery stands behind a fortress wall, half a mile around and 50 ft. thick, that protects the weathered stones and ancient relics of Trinity Cathedral. It is graduation day at the most important of the Soviet Union's three surviving Russian Orthodox seminaries. The 78 graduates, clad in black tunics and trousers, take their places in the cathedral before the ornate screen, hung with treasured icons, that separates the sanctuary from the congregation. Hundreds of candles shimmer against the gold and silver on the walls...
When Soviet skiers completed a 78-day, 1,056-mile trek to the North Pole, for example, he was flown there to interview them...
...figured Yale would be fast so our strategy was to hang with them and try to come back after a mile," newly elected captain John MacEachern said. "But Yale was able to keep it up through two miles and we were a little worried...
Turning the unexpected into the expected with a come-from-behind victory, the Crimson eight captured the Sexton Cup for the 19th consecutive time and shattered the old four-mile downstream course record by 59 seconds...