Word: steepness
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...mile-long swath through frontier history along the mountainous border between Colorado and New Mexico. From Memorial Day weekend to mid-October, steam-driven locomotives, restored to mint condition and fired by tons of hand-stoked coal, maneuver around bends and across streambeds and pant up grades as steep as 4% on a track measuring just 36 in. between the rails...
...1/2-hour ride through breathtaking scenery, with the majestic peaks of the snowcapped Andes in view part of the way. As much fun as the scenery is the train itself. Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel Pan, each 31 miles long. You can avoid cancellations due to snow by booking Argentine spring and summer trips--when it's fall and winter in the U.S. (El Maiten train station...
...option on the index. When you short the index, you borrow a basket of shares and sell, hoping to replace them at a lower price and profit from the decline. A put option gives you the right to sell at a predetermined price, protecting you from a steep drop...
Following in the size 5 footsteps of Nancy Reagan, the Clinton administration is putting its big foot down on the issue of kids and drugs. OK, so Prozac isn't exactly heroin, but the President has lots of support for his latest campaign: A recent study that showed a steep increase in the number of very young, very energetic children on psychiatric drugs was greeted with nearly unanimous horror. Children's rights advocates and pediatricians were up in arms over the potential physical side effects of the drugs, which remain widely untested for pediatric use. And child psychologists across...
...that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet. Such an ad hoc local wireless network could theoretically hold up to 99 daughters. A bigger limitation, however, may be its price: $149 per unit is pretty steep...