• Metropolitan Guadalajara, population four and a half million, sprawls across a sunny, mile-high plateau.

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  • But their balanced attack without any All-Star players may also lead to some Mile-High misfortune come playoff time.

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  • Airlines get a bad environmental rap for their fuel-burning emissions, but several are taking steps to reduce their mile-high carbon footprints.

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  • Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.

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  • After both bombed, ownership decided that O'Dowd was right in stressing that the hitter-friendly mile-high market was best suited for building a pitching staff from within.

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  • Reporters are capable of describing phenomena at the mile-high, abstract level, but if you can give a down-to- earth, real-life example, you increase your chances of being quoted in the story.

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  • Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.

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  • The air pressure is also now closer to what is normal in Denver, Colorado -- the mile-high city at 5, 280ft -- than the traditionally higher, and more mountaintop-like standard of 8, 000ft above sea level, sparing fliers from the mild altitude sickness that can be experienced when flying a long distance.

    BBC: Increased comfort in the sky

  • It is one of many labs in the biochemistry research gulch of Shanghai's 15-square-mile high-tech office park.

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  • The water calms, and our first iceberg encounter is a half-mile-long, high-walled rectangular platform whose symmetry looks too exact to be real.

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  • In many countries telecoms operators have been converting some of their last-mile connections to high-speed fibre-optic links, though cable networks and telephone wires still account for most last-mile connections.

    ECONOMIST: Internet overload

  • She has secured approval for two new berths at Port Hedland, finished the deepwater dredging for them, and has started construction on her own two-hundred-and-fourteen-mile railway and high-tech remote operations center near Perth Airport.

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  • The explorer had competed in the 42-mile High Peak Marathon in Derbyshire the evening before the crash.

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  • The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.

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  • The state's second largest blaze is the 136-square-mile High Park Fire, which has destroyed 257 homes and killed one woman.

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  • Put it this way: the Shinkansen plying the Tokaido route have access to some 180, 000 potential passengers per mile of high-speed track.

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  • After some casting about, as it were, I settle on the 300-square-mile High Lonesome Ranch on the western slope of the Rockies in DeBeque, Colorado.

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  • The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.

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  • That's like your grandfather's 5-mile hike to school through hip-high snowdrifts.

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  • The worst hit area is Plaquemines Parish, which juts out into the Gulf of Mexico, and where the storm surge overtopped an 8-foot-high, 18-mile levee, flooding an estimated 800 homes and forcing residents onto their roofs.

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  • Telecom companies have struggled for years to find a way to bridge that last mile and deliver high-speed data connections to homes and business in both rural and urban areas.

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  • The two parks are to be connected by a 30-mile highway, as well as a high-speed train that will run every five minutes and transport more than 86, 000 passengers a day.

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  • She said he attended Mesa Verde middle school, which is about a half-mile east of Westview High.

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  • Upon their 1993 expansion birth, when the team drew an all-time record 4.4 million fans to cavernous Mile High Stadium, many figured the Rockies to quickly break through as a premier, high-revenue franchise.

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  • The square-mile block near 149-at-May turned into a high-stakes game of scavenger hunt on Tuesday and Wednesday, with residents picking through what was left of their homes and looking for weirdly specific items.

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  • Each of the towers would be roughly the size of a two-car garage standing well-over half a mile high.

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  • Investigators believe the area -- which is only one mile from where she was last seen at the high school -- was merely a dumping site for the body and not the actual crime scene.

    CNN: Teen left home with dog and met killer

  • In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.

    NPR: Lebanon Hosts U.S. Diplomat for Conflict Talks

  • It was LuaLua who had the first clear shot of the game, although his seventh-minute effort was a mile high of Jens Lehmann's goal.

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  • And with Saturday's defeat by Mainz ending Hamburg's 12-game unbeaten home record, Fulham will arrive in high spirits - despite the arduous 600-mile drive they were forced to take because of the closure of British airspace after the volcanic ash cloud.

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