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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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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