Word: paced
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...tourist with a giant paper map. Pioneer's AVIC-S1 is one of the first GPS navigators with a "pedestrian" setting. In addition to telling you what interstate exit to take, it plots a path for you along boulevards and side streets, keeping in mind that your walking pace may only be two or three miles per hour...
...Keeping a brisk pace, the wheelbarrow pusher has covered a staggering 58 km a day so far-traveling faster than the Gladesville postal worker Nobby Young, who at 44 km a day over 365 days, set a record pace for circumnavigating Australia in 1994. But the very Zen-like Shaw would seem to be in no real hurry to return to Ringwood. "Back on the Nullarbor," he says, of the limestone plateau he's just crossed, "you can hear the bark peeling off the trees. It's amazing-it's just that quiet. You become part of the land...
...often credited with vacuuming up the world's oil, though American motorists are still high on any petroleum producer's list of best customers, with the run-up in pump prices hardly having made a dent in the summer driving season. As demand has surged, supply has not kept pace (hence higher prices), largely because not enough extra production and refining facilities have come online. That gap makes the market especially sensitive to any loss of supply, even the relatively modest 400,000 barrels a day that came from Prudhoe...
...radically overhauled Loker Commons is still on pace to open this fall, offering Fly-By lunch, lounge seating, and three music practice rooms. But the beer will have to wait five more months...
...Nearly one year after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,300 and displacing thousands more, frustration over the slow pace of recovery is taking a toll on the region's overall mental health. Initially, complaints reflected what some locals have dubbed "Katrina Brain": general fatigue brought on by the disruption of their lives, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, and mild depression. In most cases, it was nothing that reached critical levels. But since the first of the year, Barbee says, "there's been a steady increase in depression, specifically major depression." Worse, he adds, there...