Mechanically, the most notable upgrade is the Civic's reinforced front-chassis section, designed to cope with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new 40-miles-per-hour narrow-offset front crash test (which is quite a wallop, by the way).
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It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
As a sideman, he helped spark jazz's plugged-in fusion (including Miles Davis's 1970 classic, "Bitches Brew"), has upheld its acoustic traditions (nearly 30 years in Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio), and remains a go-to player for veterans and rising stars alike.
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First run in 1898, the Mac (not to be confused with a shorter sister race up Lake Huron) is the world's longest--333 miles--annual freshwater race.
By Saturday night, tropical-storm-force winds, at 39 mph or stronger, could be felt up to 140 miles for the storm's center about 260 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and 435 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.
Much of the equipment Komatsu sells in China is manufactured at its U.S. plant in Peoria, Illinois--two miles away from Cat's headquarters.
It called the property Firebag East, deliberately aping Suncor Energy (nyse: SU - news - people )'s well-known Firebag project, 30 miles away.
The Texas Department of Transportation said it expected to open a shoulder of northbound Interstate 37 to traffic -- from coastal Corpus Christi to U.S. 281 roughly 80 miles inland -- on Wednesday morning to help people trying to leave the city.
It weighed about 10 tonnes when it entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke apart 30-50km (20-30 miles) above ground, according to Russia's Academy of Sciences, releasing several kilotons of energy - the equivalent of a small atomic weapon.
It's not clear - to David Miles anyway - that you get any extra benefit from resorting to a helicopter drop.
The Volt's battery would permit forty-miles of travel between charges - enough to allow most American drivers not to use gasoline at all.
England's 2-1 success had seemed a million miles away after the First Test at Lord's, where Australia were convincing winners by 239 runs after dismissing England for under 200 in both innings.
On a recent December morning there were teens picking cotton in nearly all of a half-dozen Monsanto farms in Uyyalawada, 250 miles south of India's high-tech hub Hyderabad.
But they said - I grew up by this lake called Green Lake, which is a pretty sizable - there's a few miles around it.
The slopes are less than an hour's drive from the 57-year-old's home in Shiojiri, about 16 miles from the company's headquarters in Suwa.
Turkey, by contrast, has said the plane was hit 13 miles off the Syrian coast, about a mile beyond the country's 12-mile boundary, before crashing 8.5 miles off Syria.
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Nearly 90% of the U.S. population lives within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart store, and two-thirds of all retailers are located within five miles of one, the Fed's report says.
Seventy-five miles from Bina Bawi runs Iraq's biggest export route, the Kirkuk-to-Ceyhan pipeline.
He also started the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing in 1995 and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou--100 miles southwest of Shanghai and one of China's oldest universities--in 2002.
It called the property Firebag East, deliberately aping Suncor Energy's well-known Firebag project, 30 miles away.
But on September 25, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange rejected both motions.
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Other hazards are posed simply by getting from place to place on Anchorage's 1, 400 miles of city-maintained streets.
In the last few miles there's dime-size hail, but I can hear Matt whistling as we get closer to home.
The shooting took place at one of the city's famed second-line parades about two miles from the heart of the French Quarter.
In any case it's slow--usually 3 to 10 miles per hour--and made surprisingly comfortable by the four "telegraph springs" between the axles and coach body.
It's a three-day race covering 320 miles on the big island of Hawaii, including a 10-kilometer ocean swim, more than 260 miles by bike and a double marathon run.
The show used Chinese extras for its scenes, which were taped in various locations, including a village in China's Hubei province, and at Beijing's Temple of Heaven -- hundreds of miles away.
After weeks in hiding, anti-virus software company founder emerged publicly Tuesday in Guatemala's capital, hundreds of miles from the Caribbean island in Belize where his next-door neighbor was found dead.
The main objection to the EU's policy is that it applies to air-miles clocked up outside European airspace.
Rose's family is at least from Lima, so it's a familiar place to one of us, but it's many hours from home -- and many miles from the last big story.
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