Johnson's newest, "As the Crow Flies, " debuted on the New York Times bestseller list last week.

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It was given the nickname because it is situated about half-way between Glasgow and Belfast, as the crow flies.

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The flight from Abu Dhabi to London is eight hours long, crossing a distance of about 3, 500 miles (5, 600 km), as the crow flies.

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The Philadelphia Phillies, for instance, have had Triple-A clubs in Eugene, Ore. (2, 449 miles away as the crow flies), Portland, Ore. (2, 411) and San Diego (2, 372) through the years.

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The yachts and boutiques of Monaco are only four miles away as the crow flies, on the other side of the mountain, but here, the sense of isolation is complete.

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Only 40 miles east of the Greenbrier as the crow flies, the Homestead, in Hot Springs, Virginia, is no less steeped in tradition--one of those traditions being the cross-mountain rivalry between the resorts.

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It is the basic inequity that retirees living in the USA, for instance - about 30 minutes as the crow flies from where my mother lives in Ontario - do receive the cost of living adjustments.

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While we think it stinks that the Rock Hillites won't get NBC in high-def during the Olympics, we see that on a Google HDTV mashup map, they're about 25 miles from the Charlotte HD towers as the peacock crow flies.

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