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...seen." All five of the automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: High Marks for a Solid Bird | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...East Coast Railway stretched some 500 miles from Jacksonville to the Keys, but the 150-mile link between Miami and Key West was Flagler's crowning achievement. Begun in 1905, it was an engineering marvel of bridges and viaducts, with 80 miles of track built over water and the longest of the bridges spanning seven miles. A Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed the tracks on the Keys, but the roadbed was widened and opened as a highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...There isn't anything flippant about our offense," says Walsh, although four non-quarterbacks have passed or threatened to pass this year. "We don't have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be resourceful and fully dimensional." And what does fully dimensional mean? "There is basic, rock-solid, block-and-tackle football. Then there is crazy, circus-play, flea-flicker football. We fit somewhere in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Believers on the Coast | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things. "For the adventure, the achievement, the challenge," he said. "You do it for the horizons that are before you and to keep moving forward." After the world's longest balloon flight, what horizon is ?now before him? Abruzzo and crew want to balloon all the way around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Things Were Very, Very Bad | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...teams traded punts again (Villanueva lofting a 51-yarder, his longest of the day), and when a Rogan pass intended for Tom Kokoska was broken up by Louis Varsames over the middle, Yale kicked and the Crimson took over...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Humble Listless Gridders, 28-0, Tie Dartmouth for Ivy League Title | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

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