High-profile museums are popping up in far-flung places like Bilbao, Spain, and Bentonville, Ark.

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Others have showed up to defect in such far-flung locales as Qatar, Fiji, Djibouti and Mauritius.

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Add to that the possibility that a collection of collegiate "unknowns" in a far-flung part of the U.S. could rise up and pull off a series of shocking upsets in the tournament is part of the beauty of this unscripted springtime story.

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He picked up planks and stakes from beside the track and flung them under the front wheels, but the car was going so fast that it crushed the wood to nothing and sped up even more.

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Moreover, up to 40% of Cherokee voters live in such far-flung places as California, Texas and Missouri, so any candidate faces an expensive campaign.

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In Game 4, he gave up a tying goal to the Islanders' Kyle Okposo when Okposo flung what looked to be a pass that hit Fleury's skate and went in.

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The hero, Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum), after being thrown down on cement and flung against display cases and whatever other furniture happens to be around, shows up the next day with no more than a few decorative bruises on his face.

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Other places have come up with economic, humanitarian, or simply social reasons to make far-flung friends.

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Knief had spent a portion of her trip examining libraries in Florida and Louisiana, and she had walked away feeling pleased with how Kern County's far-flung network of seventy-one branches, many of which she had single-handedly expanded, stacked up by comparison.

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