Although most of its vineyards are found far away from the coast, you can taste vintages from as far away as the Santa Lucia Highlands right on Cannery Row at A Taste of Monterey.

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The academic paper is still far away from producing a shipping device, although a Microsoft doctoral fellowship's partial contribution to funding the study indicates one direction the technology might go.

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Although we're sure it's staying far, far away from getting itself into one of these price fixing predicaments, we don't suspect there's a whole lot Sony can do to outgun the Vizios of the world this holiday season, and just like everything else, balance will eventually be restored.

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It was far and away more seamless than the older PowerDVD and although it was very Media Center like, it still wasn't the same -- the most obvious difference is the scrub bar, which looks nothing like the Media Center scrub bar.

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Throughout most of its history, weather forecasting has been done by national governments, although, since any rain forecast for London incorporates data collected from as far away as Fiji, they have to co-operate.

ECONOMIST: Weather

It dates from between 3200 to 3000 BC, and although bearing some similarities to Mesopotamian, and coming from a region not too far away (what is now South West Iran), it has experts stumped.

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Although private industry outspends Washington in total research and development dollars, the federal government is far and away the most generous supporter of basic research.

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The far-right National Front is also opposed to the change, although its leader Marine Le Pen stayed away from the march, arguing the issue was a diversion by politicians from France's real problems.

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