Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded by flower beds full of dead tulips. A flagpole bears the Albanian flag...
...make this elephant dance, Armstrong has put into practice an elegantly simple plan: fashion AT&T into the leading communications company in the world by acquiring what's known as "the last mile"--the part that ends in your home. If you are like most Americans, you are connected by two wires: a copper phone wire and a coaxial television cable. Own one of those, Armstrong reasons, and the future of communications--via voice, data and television...
...heavyweights' next regatta will be the 134th meeting between Harvard and Yale in four weeks in a four-mile race on the Thames River in New London, Conn...
...John Paul II is going the extra mile for reconciliation in Rumania, abandoning Vatican claims on Catholic property confiscated by Rumania's former communist regime and transferred to Orthodox parishes, and also refraining from visiting Transylvania, where the bulk of the country's Catholic minority reside. But the extent of tension between the Rumania's Orthodox Church and its Catholic minority is underscored by a recent agreement that clergy from the two churches would refrain from trading insults and punches. With much of the Orthodox world perceiving itself as under attack in Yugoslavia, the best the pontiff may be able...
...Curt Newport found it on the first try. "I remember saying, 'Oh my God, I can't believe it. That's it. We found it. This is it!"' Newport said afterward. The sonar on the salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely...