Metropolitan Guadalajara, population four and a half million, sprawls across a sunny, mile-high plateau.
But their balanced attack without any All-Star players may also lead to some Mile-High misfortune come playoff time.
Airlines get a bad environmental rap for their fuel-burning emissions, but several are taking steps to reduce their mile-high carbon footprints.
Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is one of many labs in the biochemistry research gulch of Shanghai's 15-square-mile high-tech office park.
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.
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.
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.
The explorer had competed in the 42-mile High Peak Marathon in Derbyshire the evening before the crash.
The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.
The state's second largest blaze is the 136-square-mile High Park Fire, which has destroyed 257 homes and killed one woman.
Put it this way: the Shinkansen plying the Tokaido route have access to some 180, 000 potential passengers per mile of high-speed track.
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.
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.
That's like your grandfather's 5-mile hike to school through hip-high snowdrifts.
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.
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.
She said he attended Mesa Verde middle school, which is about a half-mile east of Westview High.
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.
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.
Each of the towers would be roughly the size of a two-car garage standing well-over half a mile high.
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.
In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.
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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