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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