Police, however, say the explosion took place too far away to be an assassination attempt.

ECONOMIST: Ballots and bombs

Once ashore, however, Shackleton realised that help was still far away, across the island's uncharted interior of lofty peaks and glacial moraines.

ECONOMIST: Antarctic exploration

Unlike the Balkans, however, Indonesia contains 220m people, and is far and away the world's largest Muslim country: this would be chaos on an epic scale.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

However, according to the report, distribution is far and away the most important factor and that should be comforting to publishers because, at this point, established publishers are the only reliable path into bricks-and-mortar bookstores, where a large proportion of sales are still made.

FORBES: Self-Publishing Is For Control Freaks

Undeterred, however, were the hundreds of Burmese who had travelled from as far away as Mandalay in the north of the country to catch a glimpse of Ms Suu Kyi, now the political opposition leader, who spent 15 years under house arrest in Rangoon.

BBC: Burma holds its first global literary festival

When objects are described with mathematically defined curves, however, the computer can decide how many polygons to draw, depending on how far away the object is meant to be.

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