Word: miles
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Arriving in Tibet--among a tiny handful of Westerners in that cloistered, nearly three-mile-high kingdom--the two wrestle for the love of a beautiful tailor (Lhakpa Tsamchoe). Then Heinrich is summoned by the Dalai Lama (Jamyang Wangchuk, a radiant 14-year-old from Bhutan). The boy-god of Tibetan Buddhism wants to meet this "yellowhead" who can shed light on a world that is to him only a picture-book fantasy. "For example, where is Paris, France? And what is a Molotov cocktail? And who is Jack the Ripper?" The Dalai Lama becomes the most avid student...
WorldCom's muscular stock has become Ebbers' checkbook. He paid $2.5 billion in 1995 for a company called WilTel and its 11,000-mile network of fiber-optic cable, making WorldCom the fourth largest U.S. long-distance carrier. But he soon found himself tossing and turning at night because he had little in the way of local service to sell. So while driving to work on Aug. 12, 1996, he dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell...
Under the current policy, students who live less than a mile from school are not provided busing except under certain situations, such as if walking safety barriers--such as railroad tracks--exist...
...have a choice of running one 2.5 mile lap around the pond or two laps around if you're feeling particularly masochistic and want to go for five miles...
Anywhere from 20 to 100 people show up on a given Saturday and range from hot-shot distance runners (stay out of their way or you risk getting trampled to death) to your average Joe plodding along at a 20 minute per mile pace...