Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just six inches from tip to tail, the tiny brown birds made their home in a ten-mile coastal stretch of marsh near Titusville, Fla. When development from nearby Cape Canaveral began to encroach, they stubbornly refused to move, and their numbers declined relentlessly. Last week the last known Dusky Seaside Sparrow expired: Orange Band, a twelve-year-old male, was found dead in its + cage...
Though only half a mile away Warsaw Pact ships were firing at targets, the crew on the 300-ft. West German navy tender Neckar exhibited no alarm. Nothing ever happened during routine surveillance missions. So, midmorning in the Baltic Sea, the NATO craft sat passively while two 600-ton Soviet-made corvettes of the Polish navy blasted practice shots at unmanned drones...
...lives. During all of 1986, only about 24 people were killed in similar raids. The increase in the number of strikes prompted Pakistan to send President Reagan an "extremely urgent" request for U.S. radar surveillance planes to direct Pakistani F-16s against intruders along the country's 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan...
...table, David Bergh was explaining, "A 90 mile-an-hour fastball takes .44 seconds to reach home plate...
Goldstein is one of thousands of Mexicans in towns and cities along the 2,000-mile U.S. border engaged in the lucrative and rapidly expanding business of providing health care for Americans. In Tijuana alone (pop. 1.3 million), there are 18 plastic surgeons and a range of other specialists among some 2,000 registered doctors and 1,700 dentists. Their listings take up 44 pages in the city telephone directory. From a simple dental filling to major reconstructive plastic surgery to a cataract operation, almost every health need imaginable is available just across the border. A major part...