Word: sq
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continental Australia. Then double it. You're looking at an area larger than either the Arctic Ocean or Antarctica. It's certainly not as chilly as those two extremities, but that's the size of the ocean and continental shelf over which Australia claims control. While a 15 million-sq.-km maritime zone cannot possibly be protected in the usual sense, the fact that this briny buffer exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes to cover the most likely...
...Creaser is entitled to feel hopeful as he takes aim. As fossil deposits go, Riversleigh is like a golf course where you can't help but shoot sub-par. Bones abound: even the untrained eye can spot them protruding from the gray limestone outcrops. In an area of 40 sq. km, Archer's teams have found and named hundreds of sites since 1976, when he and palaeontologist Henk Godthelp decided to check out reports that Riversleigh - then a cattle station, now part of Lawn Hill National Park - might contain valuable fossils. And it did - in the same way that...
...event - "and it's one we're precipitating . . . it's the first time in the history of the earth, as far as we know, that one species has caused a mass extinction - and we're in the middle of it." The issue is land: areas smaller than 300,000 sq. km have, Archer says, "no long-term viability to maintain mammal lineages. That's an order of magnitude greater than the biggest reserve we have in Australia - Kakadu - and it's certainly much bigger than anything in the U.S. So globally, this is a problem." Archer often runs up against...
...million, privately funded monorail that, for $3 a ride, runs the 4-mile stretch from the convention center up the Strip to the MGM Grand, and someday is supposed to connect all the way from the airport to downtown. Turnberry and CENTRA Properties plan to build a 1.2 million-sq.-ft. outdoor mall near the Mandalay Bay, which will further the invasion of stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And downtown is building a giant furniture showroom that hopes...
Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 9-sq.-mi. territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue--three-fourths of what the Vegas Strip managed to pull in. Long a mecca for Asia's high rollers, Macau in 2003 averaged a daily haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide...