Instead of looking at the 11, 000 miles between us as an obstacle, I see them as a challenge that forces me to be inventive in my personal and professional lives.

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So Lagat will race the 2 miles Saturday at the Armory looking to run faster than 8 minutes, 9.72 seconds.

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Eventually she found what she was looking for in a computer record at Mamayev Kurgan - just two miles (3km) from her home.

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The cause of the blaze, which broke out around 2 a.m. at Psychiatric Hospital No. 14 in Ramensky, about 80 miles north of Moscow, had not been determined and authorities were looking at the possibility of an electrical malfunction or arson and had opened a criminal investigation, Russia's Investigative Committee said.

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At the time the Nazca Lines, which span 85 square miles (220 square kilometers), were drawn, "people were not looking at this stuff from the air, they were looking at stuff from the ground level, " said Timothy Ingold, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen, who was not involved in the study.

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And one way of looking at such links is the Network Rail view that it only makes financial sense when you've built 400 miles of it, because that's when savings from journey times compete with air links.

BBC: Making tracks and political points

But the program worked just fine for iReporter Julie Callahan, a Salt Lake City, Utah, woman who was looking to replace her 1990 Chevy C1500 pickup truck, which had more than 350, 000 miles and is rated at 15 mpg.

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