World leaders aside, Arnold believes embalming is an overlooked and undervalued art that helps regular people if someone dies far from home or must be laid to rest after a delay.

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Ironically, the evidence suggests that the people on the home front, far from rebelling, would probably have stumbled on.

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Nokia executives don't need to stray far from home to find people who have little interest in the company's new phones.

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The company so far is just seven people, with Schwartz running the virtual company from home in San Francisco.

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For the Lib Dems, health spokesman Norman Lamb said it was no good offering people different hospitals, if it meant they would have to be treated far from home.

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But also there are the practicalities of the situation - people are much more mobile than before, and may have found jobs far away from the parental home.

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