Under the new agreement Quebec will complete 143 kilometers of the road as a two-lane highway, while Stornoway will be responsible for completing the final 97 kilometers.

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Think of it as a two-story house on six wheels, capable of barreling down the road at almost 65 kilometers an hour.

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In the darkness before dawn, they drive the 60-kilometer (37-mile) road from Sesriem and line up at the entrance gate, then gingerly navigate the rough road about 5 more kilometers to the first dunes.

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There's another rebel position two more kilometers down the road, Zambou tells us.

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Five kilometers up the road from UCSD, chemist Richard Lerner, president of Scripps , has assembled a powerhouse of 1, 000 Ph.

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Then, a couple of kilometers down the road from NIDA's sheds, the Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds were handed over to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Filmed Entertainment by way of a state government lease in 1996.

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On average, in middle-income countries about 60% of rural people live within two kilometers of an all-season road.

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In Kenya, for example, only about 32% of the rural people live within two kilometers of an all-weather road.

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