We almost made it under sail and oar, but Norman, the skipper of the safety yacht, towed us the final half-mile to the anchorage.
"Road signs saying dual carriageway one mile ahead freak us out!"
Once we are in our kayaks, our guide, Timothy Duffy, leads us into a 10-mile-deep ice field dotted with blue-white bergs that vary in size from refrigerator to SUV to two-story house.
Years before Reagan said it, the Three Mile Island incident showed us what needed to be done.
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To make matters more ticklish, there was a half-mile of unplowed driveway between us and the main road.
Our nearly 10-mile round trip drive took us from Paramount Studios up to the Griffith Park Observatory and back.
That 2, 521-mile route is dominated by United and US Airways, who are competitors but also partners in the Star Alliance.
Like so many other regions in the US, the Rio Grande Valley, a 100 mile stretch of southeastern Texas along the Mexican border is going through a rebranding.
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We are getting there, getting there slowly, please help us to make the last step, go the last mile and I believe that any administration, whoever is the President will do that.
Some hours north of where I am on a trip with BACKROADS, a travel company based in Berkeley, California, sits the vast and controversial Canadian tar sands containing vast amounts of oil and natural gas, which are some day going to be sent through an 1800 mile pipeline to the Louisiana Gulf Coast that the US State Department has just approved.
Earlier, the US navy said the Iranian patrol boat passed within about half a mile of the carrier, but they later corrected this to two miles.
Just as Three Mile Island put the kaibosh on nuclear power in the US for decades, Fukushima appears to have done the same for Japan and Germany, at a minimum.
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About 50 million people in a 800-mile (1, 300-km) swathe of the US are threatened by heavy rain, wind and snow.
When the US embarked in the 1950s on the construction of the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, Americans applauded.
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First, for Chairman Jaczko, when you talk about the 50-mile recommendation of yesterday being based on the best available information, could you tell us where exactly the United States is getting its information and whether it is -- you would consider it to be hard facts or best guesses?
The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile underwater and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry.
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