Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After occupying Gaza in 1967, Israel gradually claimed one-third of the strip as "state land" and built 18 Israeli settlements for about 2,200 Jews. Life is far more cramped for Gaza's Palestinians: some 5,440 people occupy each square mile, a density that approaches Hong Kong's. The Jews inhabit a beach-front enclave that is fast growing into an Israeli Riviera. But more than 60% of Gaza's Arabs are refugees, most of whom live in squalid United Nations camps built 40 years ago. In the camp of Nuseirat, Sabha, a 50-year- old woman, finds...
...half mile race, which is the freshman equivalent of the Head of the Charles regatta, was originally scheduled to be rowed last Saturday. The event was postponed because of heavy wind conditions on the Charles...
...major investigation of Texas Eastern, the Houston-based firm that supplied the gas to LILCO. Last week, in the largest settlement of an EPA case in history, Texas Eastern (1986 revenues: $4.1 billion) agreed to undertake a massive cleanup of PCB contamination along the company's 10,600-mile network of pipelines, which runs through 14 states, from Texas to New Jersey. The cleanup will cost Texas Eastern some $400 million, plus a $15 million fine that the company must...
...leader," Harvard receivers coach Mack Singleton says. "He's a quiet leader. You don't have to be a rah-rah guy to lead. He leads by example. He works hard. When we run the mile [in preseason], he's always first...
Though she was only a novice sailor, Aebi took the boat. Last week she triumphantly returned to New York harbor, completing a 29-month, 27,000-mile circumnavigation. Aebi unwittingly jeopardized her chance to be the youngest person ever to make the trip alone when she gave a friend a ride from Pago Pago to Western Samoa, a distance of only 75 miles. Still, setting records was not the point. Said her father, as the champagne flowed: "She's become a very accomplished person...