Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have ever dared to risk your life by walking in Harvard Square, you must have had at least 10 people bombard you, one right after the other, with petitions, bad street corner music or coupons to stores not within a 50-mile radius. This has all happened to me--all in one lucky day--while I ventured across Mass Ave. into the ever so busy, never-resting Harvard Square...
EVERY AUGUST THE EARTH PASSES THROUGH THE orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle. If the comet ever happened to be there, the 10-km-wide (6-mile) chunk of ice and rock could slam into the planet, carving an enormous crater, generating tidal waves and throwing up a worldwide pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike...
Carter was an even scarier prospect. It wasn't the hostages in Iran that got to me. It was the fact that he was nuclear physicist. Living within the evacuation zone of Three Mile Island, which had come to a near meltdown a little over a year before the election, convinced me that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three...
Members of the Radcliffe crew team will celebrate this year's Seventh Annual Radcliffe Crew Halloween Regatta by donning costumes and competing in a two-mile race from the Boston University bridge to Newell Boathouse, said crew Co-Captain Meg G. Brooks...
...knew they were really strong, but we did not expect this. Princeton was on. We weren't," said Captain Karin Swartz, who had Harvard's top finish of the day (fifth) running the three-mile course...