Article: HOW MANY UNREAL SQUARE MILES?(LOCAL/STATE)(THE TALK)(Column)

Article: NOW 76 SQUARE MILES OF UNREALITY.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  July 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......refers to us as so many square miles surrounded by reality. It's still...realized Madison was 15 square miles surrounded by reality. I snapped...referring to Madison as 30 square miles surrounded by reality. Dreyfus left...

Article: 35 SQUARE MILES SURROUNDED BY REALITY.(FRONT)(MADISON 150 YEARS 1856-2006)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 21, 2006 ;     158 words ......Lee Dreyfus who first said that Madison was 35 sqare miles surrounded by reality. It was meant as a smart aleck comment at...gone out of his way to document that the number of square miles Dreyfus and others have attributed to Madison have all been completely wrong. It's actually much closer to 75 ...

Article: Sizing up the Sahara. (By the Numbers).(desert extends over 3,500,000 square miles)(Statistical Data Included)
Appleseeds;  April 1, 2002 ;     147 words ......Sahara is huge. It extends over 3,500,000 square miles of northern Africa. A square mile is...miles long. What is its area--how many square miles does it cover? (Hint: Multiply.) 2...Sahara's area? a. Mexico, with 761,600 square miles b. Australia, with 2,967,900 square...

Article: Concord is 67 square miles [Derived headline]
Concord Monitor;  January 22, 2008 ;     17 words ...Concord is 67 square miles. A story in yesterday's Monitor about the city's master plan gave the wrong land area.

Article: Montana Wildfire Nearly 300 Square Miles
AP Online;  September 7, 2006 ;     457 words ......ate's largest wildfire grew to nearly 300 square miles on Thursday and officials predicted...wildfires that have blackened nearly 375 square miles across the state's northeastern area...County that had exploded to more than 200 square miles and was only 10 percent contained. No...

Article: Melting of Arctic sea ice beats record by 460,000 square miles.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  September 22, 2007 ;     127 words ......seen it shrink to an area one million square miles below the average minimum, scientists...all-time low in September 2005 by 460,000 square miles, an area five times the size of the...has seen the sea ice drop one million square miles below the long-term average minimum...

Article: CLIMATE SHIFTED QUICKLY IN ICE AGE STANDARDS SOUGHT FOR DNA EVIDENCE 50,000 SQUARE MILES OF BRAZIL JUNGLE LOST FURTHERMORE ...(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 15, 1989 ;     700+ words ......Brazil - Fire destroyed nearly 50,000 square miles of Amazon rain forest last year, wiping...not as great as in 1987, when 80,000 square miles were destroyed. Preliminary results of satellite studies showed that 48,400 square miles were set on fire in the Amazon last...

Article: United States: DOE may shrink Hanfords active area to 10 square miles.
TendersInfo;  March 29, 2009 ;     107 words ......nuclear reservation that will need long-term active management to as little as 10 square miles at its center. That's less than 2 percent of the original 586 square miles, said Matt McCormick, DOE assistant manager for central Hanford. It's hard...

Article: Storms might help douse wildfires; The blazes have burned more than 130 square miles
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 18, 2006 ;     294 words ......cover." In all, the wildfire cluster has blackened more than 130 square miles. The largest fire in the cluster was ignited by lightning July 9 and had burned about 96 square miles, but crews hoped to fully ring it by Tuesday evening. It has destroyed...

Article: Russia Raises Estimate of Nuclear Fallout; Contamination From Tomsk- 7 Accident Includes Plutonium, Covers 46 Square Miles
The Washington Post;  April 13, 1993 ;     511 words ......said that the contaminated area measured 46 square miles, an increase of 11 square miles over the estimate last week. The ministry...September 1957 poisoned an area of up to 8,900 square miles, exposing more than a quarter-million people...

Article: Nev. Wildfires Burn 500 Square Miles
AP Online;  August 5, 1999 ;     296 words ......Press Writer AP Online 08-05-1999 Nev. Wildfires Burn 500 Square Miles RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Firefighters from across the country on...of lightning-sparked fires that have blackened nearly 500 square miles of Nevada range, threatening ranches and burning closer to...

Article: U.N. Unit Says Ozone Hole Is Twice the Size of Europe; Gap Over Antarctic Totals 7.7 Million Square Miles
The Washington Post;  October 5, 1996 ;     431 words ......layer now covers more than 7.7 million square miles, "twice the surface of Europe from the...hole over the Antarctic was 8.5 million square miles, set last year. "We may end up with...million square kilometers {7.7 million square miles}, and ozone values of less than 180...

Article: Scientists: Antarctica ozone hole shrinking; Split in two: It is now 6 million square miles
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 1, 2002 ;     551 words ......normal ozone, was measured at 6 million square miles in September. That compares with around 9 million square miles on September measurements over the...maximum size of more than 10.2 million square miles, larger than the entire area of North...

Article: LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM RESEARCHERS REPORT CURRENT HYPOXIC ZONE AT OVER 6600 SQUARE MILES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......is 17,280 square kilometers (or 6,662 square miles), similar to the size of Connecticut...is 13,000 square kilometers (or 5,000 square miles). The goal of reducing the Dead Zone to 5,000 square kilometers (about 2,500 square miles) as stated in the "Action Plan for Reducing...