Ms Chew believes that anyone can become an entrepreneur if they are prepared to see beyond their immediate surroundings.

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Mr. Arrechea has taken care to match each sculpture with its immediate surroundings.

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Cellphones are great at communicating with distant people and websites, but not at connecting to things in their immediate surroundings.

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Pripyat, and all the immediate surroundings of the power plant, will be uninhabitable for hundreds of years but the plant itself is still working.

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These novels, fairy tales, comic strips and storybooks offer Haitian children from three to 17 a welcome distraction from the harsh reality of their immediate surroundings and an opportunity to read despite the destruction of many libraries.

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