Its banks are disfigured by small hydropower stations, some half built, and by diversion tunnels, blasted out of solid rock, that leave miles of the riverbed dry.
But you feel he is happiest when the tempo is achingly slow and the musicians leave miles of open space, as in The Closer I Get to You (with Beyonce Knowles playing Roberta Flack to Luther's Donny Hathaway) or the painfully heartfelt title track.
Here, brutal, slicing surf and weather pound malleable limestone and sandstone, eating away at the Australian continent, and leaving mile after mile of sweeping vistas of sculptured cliffs, towers and arches framed against the roiling turquoise sea.
The Portland Street area, as she is well aware, was another unhappy victim of the Labour government's Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders Programme – aka the Pathfinder scheme – a wilfully stupid and ultimately doomed project that has left many miles of terraced houses standing empty across cities in the north and the Midlands.
Agriculture losses were heavy after the floods washed away the topsoil and left behind miles of debris.
In "Dark Was the Night," an ancient two-legged creature has descended on and left three miles of what resemble hoof prints over the fictitious small town of Maiden Woods, apparently as the result of deforestation.
The "notice of deficiency" is the latest allegation against Duke Energy, which was responsible for a massive coal ash spill Feb. 2 that left 70 miles of the Dan River coated with coal ash sludge in North Carolina and Virginia -- the third-largest such spill in U.S. history.
The various municipalities own another 23.5 miles, which leaves seven miles of access owned by the state.
When Marlon Brando died last month, his assets included the Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa (left), 26 miles north of Tahiti, which he purchased in 1966 after "Mutiny on the Bounty" was filmed there.
A train rolled out of Kosovo Polje, left, three miles west of Pristina, Kosovo, bound for Skopje, the Macedonian capital.
Well, he's certainly not done so here, winging an awful fairway wood miles left, nearly out of bounds.
