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...biggest and costliest ($1.6 billion) enterprises ever undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now being challenged by a lawsuit. The Environmental Defense Fund and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which stands to lose business to the waterway, charge that the corps extended the width of the channel from 170 ft. to 300 ft. without proper authorization. The corps told a congressional committee in 1951 that it had no intention of widening the waterway and acknowledged that such a change would require congressional approval. Yet the engineers later proceeded to widen the waterway without clearly stated authorization...
...full freedom to go where the roles are and no concern about the size of the part. "It's easier to move back and forth between the theater and films in England," Fonda feels, "where everything is in one place. Here film and theater are separated by the width of the continent, and it's not easy to uproot children from school, mothers and wives from homes to live in a hotel. I've done a lot of theater because I want to. If I'm away from it for a while I miss the audience...
Dales was swirling his irons with a ragtime rhapsody to the piping winds and looked like he would run away with individual scoring honors. Then his putting touch began to unravel and he missed a slew of putts by about the width of a gnat's eyelash...
...said, it does not always do so in a predictable way. Consider Korea's Demilitarized Zone, which stretches for 151 miles near the 38th parallel, between North and South Korea. For a quarter-century, two armed adversaries have sullenly, sometimes violently, confronted each other across its 2.5-mile width. The sights of innumerable guns sweep it constantly. Observation planes patrol along it daily. But human beings never stay there for long. And because it is so totally a no man's land, the DMZ is not abhorred by nature...
...storm caused only one fatality in the town; nevertheless, the devastation was awesome. Geographically speaking, the storm could not have found a more suitable victim. Hull, Massachusetts consists of four drumlins--glacial hills--connected by seven miles of low-lying land. The town's width varies between a half mile and ten yards, and once the high tide had flowed over the seawalls, it rolled right across to the ocean on the other side of the town...