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A few hundred yards away, crews from the Louisiana National Guard erected a roughly two-mile-long, 8-foot-high barricade assembled of asphalt, and sand bags.

Floodway Forces Sacrifice Mike Esterl 2011

The two-mile-long runway for space planes is ready to go.

Slow Liftoff for Space Tours Stephanie Simon 2011

A Starbucks, a Duane Reade, pizza and sushi places, an upscale sports bar and other retail businesses occupy eight spaces in Riverwalk, one of the newest developments on the narrow, two-mile-long island.

Roosevelt Island Shops for More Stores Pervaiz Shallwani 2011

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010

In his latest inflatable adventure, Tompkinson is travelling from South Australia to New South Wales, taking in all manner of Australian-ness? camel racers, two-mile-long trains, peculiar meat dishes? along the way.

Pete Cashmore's Screen burn: Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure 2010

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010

Just past a port where workers are building a two-mile-long pier to accommodate huge vessels known as Chinamaxes that will transport iron ore for China's ravenous steel industry, past berths for tankers to lug oil to Beijing, a city of factories is sprouting on an island almost twice the size of Manhattan.

China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010