Word: miles
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Starting the last session with Lovisa's swim gave the team so much momentum," said co-captain Corie Calfee. "Any time a mile comes down to a few hundredths, it's going to be exciting. And the way she stuck with the race and pushed herself proved to the rest of us that even if we were tired we could still swim well...
Mary Unsworth was the top Crimson distance runner, finishing third in the mile (4:55.59). She also finished fourth in the 800 meters...
This is James Fenimore Cooper country. His father founded the village on the south end of nine-mile-long Otsego Lake in 1786, and the author later described the area in the Leatherstocking Tales. Before going to the opera in the evening, visitors can swim or sail. In town, they can spend a thoughtful afternoon at Fenimore House, a 1930s mansion housing Hudson River School paintings, as well as folk and Native American art, or they can walk into America's rural past at the Farmers Museum, in a re-creation of a mid-19th century village. --By Emily Mitchell...
...unknown genus of pygmy marmoset. It was a remarkable discovery; the last time any scientist had identified a new primate genus was in the late 19th century. Trouble was, the Indian knew only that the marmoset had been trapped somewhere near the Madeira River, a 2,000-mile stretch of water flowing into the Amazon from the Bolivian Andes. This clue propelled Van Roosmalen on an epic, nine-month odyssey in which he found far more than the elusive marmosets...
Becky Weed rarely lays eyes on a coyote as she goes about tending her sheep on Thirteen Mile Farm outside Belgrade, Mont. But at night in her 135-year-old house on the edge of the spread, she can clearly hear the yips and howls of the scruffy predators echoing across the meadows. Were it not for an unusual four-legged critter of her own, the coyotes would have a field day devouring her 240 ewes and lambs...