Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker felt strong throughout the long race and was able to pull through as the top Harvard runner. During the past two weeks, he had been doing short and fast workouts to help him improve his speed. He felt that his training at 4:40 mile intervals made the 4:50 mile pace much easier to run in the race...
...that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than a mile, then fell towards the waters off the Massachusetts coast. Speculation on that unusual flight pattern now centers on some sort of human, rather than technical, problem with the flight. Especially now that the flight data recorder, recovered earlier in the week, revealed that the plane had been taken off autopilot...
...data analysis was incomplete, however. The last six seconds of tape, which had been damaged while under water, remain to be deciphered. But even then, investigators now know that the recorder stopped working late in the dive, but before - according to radar data - the plane climbed more than a mile and a half before its final plunge into the ocean. So Wednesday's press conference was mostly a heads-up to the media on the fact that investigators have more questions than answers...
Bredekamp says she hears complaints from kindergarten teachers across the country that "our kids need more play, rather than less, and our curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep. The pressure is on coverage and not teaching in depth." According to Harriet Egertson, head of the early-learning section of the Nebraska department of education, "When large portions of the day are spent with kids listening instead of doing, then kids who don't learn quite that way fail." More time spent sitting and listening to a teacher may not be appropriate for younger learners, who benefit from...
...mountain, called the Troll Castle, is an unearthly fin of weathered granite that pokes a vertical mile from its icebound surroundings. Only a handful of people knew, or cared, that it existed; fewer still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...