Not long from now, Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay will be seen on the town with other people.

WSJ: Peyton Manning, Sad but Single

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

WSJ: Steve Jobs: 'Find What You Love'

However, what lingers most vividly in the memory is his affectionate, gently mocking and frequently moving evocation in the first third of the book of a period and a society that, though not long gone, seems now to be from an entirely different age.

ECONOMIST: English memoirs

In part that's because the circumstances he now faces are not just a long long way from the sunny optimistic rhetoric which preceded the economic crisis, but also a long long way from the economic recovery he once believed would be well under way by now.

BBC: Cameron pushes message of aspiration

There is a long way to go between now and five years from now with companies that do not yet have revenues or earnings.

FORBES: Avalon Rare Metals Announces Shelf Registration

This is most likely just the result of some profit taking out of the long positions and at least for now, it does not look like a change in bias away from the recent upward trend.

FORBES: Euro Clings To $1.30 Like Saran Wrap

We have come a long way from when the Internet was first launched, to where we are now, not only in regards to how much information is available online, but how much information people willingly share online.

FORBES: Why Playing Online Detective is a Dangerous Game

Yet it is precisely the fact that soldiers who were fighting one another not long ago now train together, or that firemen co-operate on a routine basis or that everyone from vets to central bankers meets with almost dreary regularity which constitutes the good news.

ECONOMIST: Former Yugoslavia patches itself together