The distance doesn't sound much, especially if you're used to road-cycling figures, but he tells me you tick off miles much more slowly on a mountain bike and the close contours on the map suggest there are a good few hills to conquer en route.
In Alabama, drug-free school zones, which include colleges and housing projects, extend 15,460 feet, roughly three miles — much more than in other states.
Wired reports that the test this weekend is at a distance of 100 miles, a much more comfortable distance, given the risk of multiple targets, and collateral damage from falling debris.
UNLIKE some business travelers, who may fly more miles in a year than many pilots, leisure travelers tend to earn frequent flier miles at a much more, well, leisurely pace.
Lake Chad itself, with an area of only some 5,000 square miles, was formerly much more extensive.
The two cities are only 80 miles apart, not much more than an hour's drive down I-35 for lead-footed local drivers, and their metropolitan areas are slowly growing together.
At just seven miles long and never much more than a mile wide, with frigid winds off the Sound whipping the island into a deep freeze from Thanksgiving to Easter, it is hard to figure out why people might want to live here year-round.
You've learned that the redemption cost per mile is usually much more favorable for international business-class and first-class flights than it is for a regularly priced domestic flight.
Upstate New York has huge underground deposits of salt, but moving it hundreds of miles by train is much more expensive than transporting the same amount thousands of miles by ship.
Baltimore has done so partly by the spillover of people and businesses from Washington, less than 50 miles away, which has much more expensive housing and has suffered from the decline of some of its high-technology industries.
Because transporting garbage out of state, in some cases hundreds of miles away, is so much more expensive than local dumping, many environmentalists believe that the city, which they say has had a weak commitment to recycling, will be pushed as never before to reduce the waste stream.
