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  • Stan Sesser/The Wall Street Journal Occupying just 1% of the Gobi, the dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds, rising in some spots to as many as 600 feet above the desert floor.

    Camel-Trekking Across the Gobi 2011

  • Over the next two days, an estimated sixty thousand people would come to see the body—moving through the chapel at a rate of close to twelve hundred an hour, with a mile-long queue winding through campus.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • The Gobi dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds.

    Dunes Struck 2011

  • Touring the blast zoneThe tornado that plowed a 1-mile-wide, nearly 7-mile-long path of destruction through Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama, was awesome.

    Rebuilding will take years, millions <emdash/> and patience 2011

  • But getting started is daunting after 200-mph winds carved a 6-mile-long, half-mile-wide path of destruction.

    Rebuilding will take years, millions <emdash/> and patience 2011

  • NASA Test Director Mike Ciannilli choked up the second he saw the shuttle's tires touch the 3-mile-long runway.

    NASA shifts focus as Atlantis landing ends shuttle era 2011

  • Jakob Boserup The Mountain apartment complex in Copenhagen Current Project: Superkilen, a mile-long urban space wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Copenhagen.

    Living Architecture in Europe Natalia Rachlin 2011

  • Fearing it would lose its investment, the pension system took ownership of the mile-long plant and is trying to lease it to others.

    States to Business: Give Our Cash Back Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • This Italian-style mansion was built by 'Crocodile Dundee' star Paul Hogan on 115 acres of land, including a nearly mile-long driveway.

    Australian Mansion 2011

  • Occupying just 1% of the Gobi, the dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds, rising in some spots to as many as 600 feet above the desert floor.

    Dunes Struck 2011

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