Mindful that the city's residents grow ever unhappier, politicians have cooked up various schemes to bring water in from faraway places.

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And the artists themselves are seeing more influences from faraway cultures, partly thanks to the Internet, which allows exposure to images created anywhere.

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It can do troubleshooting on a faraway computer network from headquarters.

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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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These young patriots were willing to serve in faraway lands, yet they were taken from us here at home.

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His showy populism, unseemly slanging matches with the judiciary and bunga-bunga parties now seem to come from a far-off era in a faraway land.

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SeaCode's pitch is that it will still charge the same rates as developing-world firms (Green says Indian firms hide behind amazing markups) while offering clients freedom from killer flights to India, Israel and other faraway destinations to check in on projects.

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