Caught between a rock and far off place, the quest for life on Mars will continue.

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The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters).

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Maybe head off to a far away place, alone, to relax from an emotionally draining year.

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Easter Island is part of Chile, far off its coast (like Hawaii), but it also claims to be the inhabited place furthest from any other inhabited place on earth, and a 5-hour flight into the Pacific.

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You can view and alter other users' files in one place, chat with those other users over the Internet and then move on to far-off objects and people, if they seem interesting.

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