Word: miles
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...with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart, her navigator and plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on the way between New Guinea and Howland Island. Pratt & Whitney, which is shelling out $4.5 million to sponsor the venture, financed the restoration of Finch...
...president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry lobbyist. "It was a fuzzy area," he says, that neither the regulator nor the licensees paid much attention to. The post-Millstone emphasis on "rigid" compliance, another N.E.I. official has complained, "is almost as bad as NRC's reaction to Three Mile Island." Inside the agency, a rift developed between Jackson and the senior staff that had let things slip. Jackson ordered a safety and compliance review of all U.S. nuclear plants, offering utilities a two-year amnesty to correct problems they identify. "We must demonstrate vigilance, objectivity and consistency," she says...
Proponents of certification countered that trade and immigration links, not to mention a 2,000-mile border, made amicable relations with Mexico imperative. Swallowing his humiliation in the Gutierrez affair, McCaffrey told the press last week, "It is our belief that the U.S. and Mexico are trapped economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime, in the same continent, and we'd better figure out a way to work on it together for the next 10 to 20 years...
...think of 40-mile-an-hour winds and zero-degree weather as a big deal," says JOHN FAHNER-VIHTELIC. That's probably because he has endured far worse. In 1977 he lay for 16 days without food, pinned above the dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though...
Schotte and Angell also ran on the sixth place two-mile relay, along with junior Heather L. Stroud and freshman Bethany K. Helms...