Word: miles
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...hilltop near the town gives a full view of the Sandouping construction site for the new dam. Looking down on the empty expanse between the mountains on either side, one can hardly conceive of a mass of concrete 600 ft. high, stretching 1 1/4 miles across the river valley, to be finished by 2003. Nor is it easy to picture the 360-mile-long reservoir that will back up behind the planned dam, flooding more than 150,000 acres of land and forcing 1.3 million people to relocate to higher ground. The cranes on the site are hundreds of feet...
Byrd's body was found on the morning of June 7, torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African...
...undersea salvager, recovery was a different matter. Herndon's vessel went down 100 miles off the Carolina coast, somewhere in sea at least a mile and a half deep. When Tommy Thompson, by the early 1980s a marine engineer at the elite Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, became interested in undersea mining and salvage, technology for very deep recovery had not progressed much beyond the diving bell. This gadget, first developed in the 17th century, could go deep but do almost no real work...
...more into bargain basements and blue light specials, take the Red Line to Downtown Crossing and visit Filene's Basement, the mother of all bargain basements. There, you will make your way through mile-long racks of designer clothes, all priced to please. Adjacent to Filene's are several other stores that make for a shopper's paradise (see related story on shopping, page...
...there are plenty of ways to reduce my cholesterol without resorting to drugs. You can bet Merck will be doing further studies to see if people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...