Word: miles
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Last October the Marines added a grueling new climax to boot camp called the Crucible. Spread over 54 straight hours near the end of their training stint, it requires recruits to simulate a variety of battlefield actions amid 40 miles of hiking. They traverse a 20-ft.-wide creek with a pair of 10-ft. boards, and they carry a "wounded" Marine for a mile over rugged terrain. They perform with scant sleep or food, through day and night, and have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott...
...radio station near Sedona, Ariz., reports a 20-mile UFO--unconfirmed, as usual; the Dow is rallying, as usual...
...threw just 41 pitches and was booed as he left the mound. By attracting ten and fifteen thousand more fans than average, Irabu has shown George Steinbrenner that he may be worth every penny. But first he's got to find either his confidence or his reputed 100-mile-an-hour fastball...
BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars...
...their life and their health; it says so on the cigarette pack, right near "tasteful/low tar" or some similarly enticing inscription. In contrast, the three teens killed at the intersection didn't have a clue about the missing sign. No one has ever declared a willingness to "walk a mile" to go through an unmarked intersection or congratulated herself for having "come a long way" when she got to one. But to continue in the vein of fairness, it is also true that the stop-sign thieves had throughout their young lives neglected to contribute to any major political campaign...