Word: km
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...both your feet are off the ground, you're running. That was something Australian race walker Jane Saville forgot as she neared the end of her 20-km race. In first place and only 200 m from a triumphal finish inside Stadium Australia, Saville was dramatically, almost cruelly--but correctly--disqualified from the race for running...
...walker infringing the rules is cautioned twice, then shown the red card. China's Liu Hongyu, the 1999 world champion, and Italy's Elisabetta Perrone, who won silver in the 10-km at Atlanta, were also red-carded. When Saville too was tossed, China's Wang Liping was left to take the gold...
CHARIOTS OF MUD Cue the inspiring music. Now slow it down. While the swift get their due, the steady go sadly unheralded. And so we salute Britain's CHRIS MADDOCKS, 43, the slowest athlete in the Games' slowest event. He came in last in the 50-km walk (31 miles), in just under five hours...
...carbon ?preserves,? called carbon sequestration in wonk-speak. If a market developed to package and sell certified reductions in greenhouse emissions, money might flow to states that took action to reduce deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop their work. Moreover, the Brazilian federal government...
...life, scientists and environmentalists recognized the vast array of threats, but also assumed that the Amazon was too big to be destroyed by one generation?s folly. The vulnerability revealed by El Ni?o of 1998 shows the world that this isn?t true. The decision to pave 700 km of road in the rain forest doesn?t seem like a global issue, but the holocaust that might follow that seemingly innocuous transportation decision could well contribute to a global disaster...