Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dutifully, and with the media blaring doomsday over their car radios, more than 2 million residents did, clogging the highways and creating their own disaster bulletins ? the traffic kind. Cars packed with families, pets and suitcases crept west at hours per mile, and when Floyd cruised on by, folks were inclined to feel that safe had been exactly the same as sorry. "There was no need to go," Georgia convenience-store owner Subhash Patel told the USA Today after his four-and-a-half-hour, 39-mile trip cost him two days of business. "We got scared unnecessarily...
...Thorpe found himself working near Three Mile Island, which that year was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in the nation's history. The area was devastated, and Thorpe says he was "quite happy" to return to Cambridge for his junior year...
...Line: One game the Line can pick, even after an off day, is a CHIEFS-Broncos matchup. This time around, both teams are 0-1 and feeling a little desperate. What gives Kansas City the edge is that, unlike the Mile High boys, who merely suspect it, the Griefs truly know they're not going to be playing in January. Take KC plus 3 1/2 points...
Less than half a mile away, antecessor's co-discoverer, Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is excavating at Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones), deep inside a natural cave. So far, his team has found thousands of fossils from at least 33 hominids of all ages. About 300,000 years old, they appear to represent an early stage of Neanderthal evolution. Explains Eric Delson, a professor of anthropology at Lehman College in New York City: "For the first time, we have a good population from a single place and enough variation to show Neanderthal features...
...hulled, 60-ft. racing machines--surfboards for maniacs, once they get to the 50-ft. waves of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica--the Vendee Globe competitors are bound by brutally simple rules. They stipulate one boat, one person, no help, no stops, first home wins. The 27,000-mile course starts in November in the Bay of Biscay on the coast of France; points south through the horse latitudes and doldrums, past Africa to the bottom of the world; rounds Cape Horn; then turns north to home. The race takes 3 1/2 to five months...