Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite two quick Crimson touchdowns, Yale defeats Harvard 27-14 in the 63rd annual game. Attendance was so heavy that cars blocked streets for half a mile up Mass...
With its flamboyant orange-and-black wings and incredible 1,000-mile migratory flights, the monarch butterfly is one of the world's best-known and most beloved insects. And like a miner's canary, it has become a kind of biological early-warning system, succumbing to environmental changes long before humans notice them. Last week the monarch sounded another alert--fanning new fears about bioengineered crops...
...bicyclists pedaled 50 times around the Square to complete their 35-mile course, starting at Mass. Ave. and working their way through Quincy Street, Broadway Avenue, and around the Yard...
Ambassador James Sasser knew real fear when his wife Mary told him over a mobile phone that a mob of Chinese students was smashing windows, pitching Molotov cocktails and apparently preparing to break into their Beijing residence. Sasser was half a mile away, trapped inside the U.S. embassy by a similar mob, unable to step outside the door without risking his life. "That was the worst of it all," Sasser told TIME, "not being able to get to my family." It was 3:30 on Sunday afternoon in Beijing, 34 hours after American bombs had wrecked the Chinese embassy...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Bob Greene April 15, 1999 [MODE] Bicycle [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 68 miles a day for 49 days [THE CAUSE? His new book PREPARATION] Made a 1,200-mile bike trip...