Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Michelle regularly travels to far and distant lands for her job and international volunteer initiatives.

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Not for him is the Bush "heat" about liberty in distant lands.

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In Britain, too, students from distant lands help to balance the universities' books: fees for students from the European Union are capped at uneconomic rates.

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Seems a near-decade of comedy routines, movies and TV commercials that poke fun at foreign accents in distant lands answering questions about simple product information has had an effect.

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Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.

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Messages for Jim came from distant lands.

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One can argue that it is not America's job to fix the world's problems, to stop the killings in distant lands even if, as we now know, those killings involve horrific weapons banned by international agreements that set a limit to our inhumanity even in times of war.

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They discussed how the physical details of the site supported their interpretation in a response in the May issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, and that while the legend of the nachzehrer was found in Germanic areas, Venice was a crossroads during the epoch in which such legends from distant lands might have circulated.

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Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.

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