Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those arguments impressed the judge, who agreed that the curtailment or alteration of railroad routes-like the changing of the path of a river-should conform to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The decision could affect the current trend of wholesale abandonments of rail service; U.S. railroads have already submitted plans to stop service on more than 250 stretches of track in 40 states, with 100 more cutbacks contemplated...
...probably won't go again for a long time--basically because I can't afford to lose, and that's the wrong attitude entirely--but for a July 4 night it was much more invigorating than watching fireworks or meditating on where we strayed from the path first blazed by our founding fathers...
Soon you get the feeling-an illusion, really-that you don't really need the luxuries of civilization, or its arbitrary restraints. Once, backpacking along the John Muir Trail in California's Sierra Nevada, I left the path and bushwhacked across the high country for a day. It was a foolish idea. I was inexperienced, unsure of where I was heading, unprepared for bad weather. Climbing over huge boulders that ancient glaciers had dropped like pebbles along the timber line, I became terrified. What if I broke a leg or got lost? Miles of wilderness surrounded me. When...
...quickly establish a relationship with the woods. All your senses are engaged. You stop to examine wildflowers and taste fresh cold water from a fast brook. You hear the forest's noises-birds, rain hitting the leaves, a squirrel or porcupine scurrying out of your path...
...eclipse watchers will endure harsh conditions. Three cruise ships, carrying hundreds of scientifically minded tourists, will station themselves off the coast of West Africa in the path of totality, while lecturers on board discuss the fine points of the event overhead. The best view should be obtained by seven French, British and American scientists. On June 30, they will board a supersonic Concorde jet in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, fly south and intersect the path of totality near Chinguetti. Then they will race the moon's shadow across some 1,700 miles of Africa at nearly Mach...