Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LAST FRIDAY EVENING, 16-year-old Neil Parker was strolling in East London with his girlfriend when a powerful blast of wind nearly knocked him to his knees. Nearly a mile away, a half-ton bomb had exploded just across from Canary Wharf, home of Europe's tallest office building. As blood-flecked pedestrians stumbled across acres of shattered glass and sirens pierced the smoke, Parker tried to calm his girlfriend, Samantha Herbert. "I thought immediately it was something to do with the I.R.A.," he said...
...fine performances throughout the day that laid the groundwork for the victory. Co-Captain Ailey Penningroth won both the shot put (12.43m) and the 20 pound weight throw (13.94m) Then, much to the surprise of many, she appeared on the starting line to lead off the two mile relay team...
Sophomore Margaret Angell set yet another personal record with an exciting victory in the mile (4:58.56). With a little over 200 m. remaining, surrounded by three Princeton athletes, Angell burst to the front of the pack, showing superior strength and determination to hold them all off and clinch the win. Once again, she dipped under the ECAC qualifying standard...
...Harvard athletes made qualifying standards for the ECACs in five events. Freshman Heather Hanson qualified and placed second in the 200m (25.81 secs.). The one-mile relay team of Hanson, freshman Afia Asamoah, freshman Lee Shearer and Williams also made the qualifying time, and in doing so beat the best efforts of the home team to hold on for victory in 3:51.25. Junior Karen Goetze placed second in the 800m (2:14.78) and also qualified...
...sarin. The weapons close to the smoldering rocket exploded, blowing the heavy door off the igloo and allowing rockets to fly out, spewing fake sarin into the air. Inside the igloo, rockets kept detonating with dull thuds. A typical igloo contains 4,000 M-55s, each with a seven-mile range and 20 tons of sarin. (A pinpoint dose is enough to kill a 100-lb. person...