Word: swath
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...there be any physical activity not yet annexed by the gym and footwear folk and marketed as the newest fitness craze? At least one--skipping down the street. Since founding iskip a year ago in San Francisco, Kim Corbin has uncovered a hidden swath of skippers, mostly adults. So far, 14 cities have clubs run by head skippers, and group skips are coordinated through a website, iskip.com Upcoming events include a tax-day skip in Seattle on April 15 and a skip in New York City's Central Park in May. Corbin hopes to skip across the country to (where...
...built in the 1880s as part of a rail empire connecting commercial outposts and mining camps, cuts a meandering 64-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...
...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
Between 2000 and 2339: geographical diversity prevails. The Southeast and a large swath of the Rockies will go for Scenario B (early marriage, no divorce). Oregon, California and New York will offer renewable marriages, and a few states will go monosexual, as in Scenario A. But because of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, each state is entitled to recognize only the kinds of "marriages" it approves of, so you will need a "marriage visa" to travel across the country, at least if you intend to share a motel room...
University officials confirmed last October that they were discussing placing a much-needed theater on a swath of Harvard-owned land past Peabody Terrace...