Word: sq
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...Rhine to the Loire and the North Sea, France too has been battered by Niagara-like downpours. Normandy and Brittany got almost one-third of their average annual rainfall from Jan. 17 to 28. In Rennes, the Breton capital, showers dropped an astonishing 70 liters of rain per sq m in a 24-hour span of Jan. 22 to 23, breaking a 111-year record...
...World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat? Or the fact that the brawn required to turn a 25-ton boat or hoist a 3,400-sq.-ft. sail is rare in females? Or the male clubbiness that excluded women even from the more cerebral positions of navigator and tactician? When the all-female team was announced, says Linda Lindquist, 32, who doubles as a sail-hoisting pitman and fund raiser, "men asked me, 'What happens when...
...rhetoric of right-to-lifers with his own brand of aggressive, bawdy behavior. Once, when protesters came to sprinkle holy water around his former clinic, he charged out with a foot-long, penis-shaped water pistol and squirted back. The only abortion provider for an area of 200,000 sq. mi., he charges $260 each for the roughly 3,000 procedures he performs each year. His wife Lynne helps run the clinic, and Stutes says they saved for several years to make a down payment on the new facility...
...occasion for Dole's Bosnia posturing was the Serb attack on the Muslim area of Bihac. In fact, as the French pointed out accurately, it was a counterattack. The Muslims began this round with a fierce surprise offensive in late October that won them 95 sq. mi. of Serb-controlled territory and quiet applause from the U.S. Now that the gambit has backfired and the Bosnian government is blaming everyone but itself, Dole is pushing for more NATO bombing, for lifting the arms embargo and for other forms of flailing unilateralism...
...towns of Laredo, Del Rio and McAllen, which have not been promised any additional agents or equipment. "We have not heard about this plan, and to date we have received nothing," says McAllen border agent Mario Garcia, whose area covers 280 miles of river, 19 counties and 17,000 sq. mi., are all policed by 395 agents...