Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faithful Inn knocked at 6:45 a.m. last Wednesday to begin an evacuation of the popular sight-seeing area surrounding Yellowstone Park's fabled geyser. As tourists became refugees, parts of the fire-ravaged park resembled a war zone. Clouds of smoke stretched as far away as Denver, 400 miles southeast. The worst flare-up, on Wednesday, roared through 56,000 acres in six hours and pushed to within a mile of the geyser. Flames 200 ft. high swooped down on a village not far from the Old Faithful Inn, destroying more than a dozen buildings. The fires have ruined...
...part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort cost more than $360 million to build, including $2 million for a 77-step, pink-flagstone grand staircase...
That is why Kruse packed his three tiny planes on plastic foam bubbles in the back of his car and drove more than 1,300 miles across the U.S. to launch them for a few minutes of glory. For Kruse the urge is visceral, planted in him for good when, at age seven or eight, he hand-launched a 5 cents glider on ; the sun-drenched Kansas prairie. The craft rose a few feet, then miraculously was snatched by a thermal and carried away. Kruse leaped on his bicycle and rode desperately after it -- one mile, two miles, five miles...
...left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball hit me in the eye," explains the swimmer. "It caused a detached retina." Despite four eye operations, and against the advice of his doctors, Darnyi , returned to competition in 1984. Between his typical eleven-mile-a-day training sessions, Darnyi, a science-fiction fan, builds model spaceships and muses on his future. The big question: Should he accept one of the many offers from U.S. universities or prepare to enter Hungary's hotel-and-catering college? His decision will have to wait until he dries...
...weather service issued a hurricane warning for Mexico's northern coast and the southern half of the 370-mile Texas coast from Brownsville to Port O'Connor, including 250,000-resident Corpus Christi. A hurricane watch remained in effect for the remainder of the Texas coast, from Port O'Connor north to Port Arthur near the Louisiana border...