Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont.

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More than a thousand miles away from Sacramento, a far more positive outlook counters the frustration felt by many California employees and business owners.

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As I dove north from Memphis all the way to Chicago, more than a thousand miles away, it dawned on me exactly how distorted this media message was.

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"When we, a thousand miles away, debate over whether we should be in Afghanistan or draw a cartoon, the people in Nigeria take up arms and fight it out, " she says.

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Also curious is the fact that the assassins were based in Odessa, a city which is not only the better part of a thousand miles away from Moscow but that is in another country.

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As before, agency powers sit at a bank of computers tracking Bourne (who may be a thousand miles away) while he tries to evade their gaze as well as the goons, some working for the C.

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Five thousand miles away in a Pfizer research lab in Groton, Connecticut, infectious disease specialist Scott Hopkins is surfing the Internet when he spots a story on the epidemic--and sees opportunity.

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Then Starkweather heard that Xerox was opening a research center in Palo Alto, three thousand miles away from its New York headquarters.

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This took place at a level of abstraction that is made possible when the fighting is eight thousand miles away.

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The train carrying the Cao family was still miles away, but D3115, also bound for Fuzhou, with a thousand and seventy-two people aboard, was ahead of D301.

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