Word: radius
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Walston said students attending college within a 30-mile radius of Boston are eligible to compete for the scholarship...
...avoiding that, workshop scientists suggested, is to use the neutron bomb, a weapon that delivers most of its energy in the form of speeding neutrons rather than an explosive blast. The neutron warhead would be detonated when the missile approached to about a distance equal to the radius of the asteroid. "The neutrons penetrate deeply into the near side of the asteroid," Canavan explains. "They heat and vaporize the material, which expands at a high velocity and blows out of the side of the asteroid," thrusting it into a new, non-threatening orbit...
...have ever dared to risk your life by walking in Harvard Square, you must have had at least 10 people bombard you, one right after the other, with petitions, bad street corner music or coupons to stores not within a 50-mile radius. This has all happened to me--all in one lucky day--while I ventured across Mass Ave. into the ever so busy, never-resting Harvard Square...
Once airborne, the mosquito becomes a flying machine that puts state-of-the- art aeronautics to shame. Mosquitoes have range: though most live out their lives within a radius of a kilometer or two, some swamp species have been known to fly more than 160 km (100 miles). And they have maneuverability: a mosquito flying through a rainstorm can land safe and dry on the nape of your neck after dodging hundreds of drops that to it are as big as falling refrigerators...
Viewed pessimistically, Syatt's parties seem to bring together single people who shouldn't even walk within a ten-mile radius of one another. They come from different towns and range in age from 28 to 60. Young singles speak openly about sex, (whether or not that's what they're seeking) and older ones use code words like "connecting." Even on the most basic communicative level, Syatt's attempted matchmaking is an exceedingly difficult--if not impossible--task...