And he claims to have a geography-defying plan to lead Britain into the heart of Europe through the mechanism of the single currency.

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The internet's erasure of geography lets people have a flutter without having to leave their living-rooms for the Bellagio's bombast or the shabbiness of the local dive (see article).

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And America knows from its history that its reach goes far beyond its geography For a century you have carried upon your shoulders the greatest of responsibilities: to work with and for the rest of the world.

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But the enrolment of Prince William, in his final year of a four-year geography degree, is thought to have boosted the university's reputation among the English privately-educated gentry.

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Sadly, today we have a horribly divided country with little that binds us other than history, geography and language.

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Like unemployment checks, retraining and other benefits, which vary wildly depending on factors such as geography, the Cobra subsidy has created a lopsided system of haves and have-nots.

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Mike Linksvayer ponders the options for demolishing freeways in Oakland, CA. I know nothing about Oakland geography, so I have no opinions about his recommendations, but this seems like a worthwhile conversation for people in the Bay Area to be having.

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But it is so much faster that it has the power to reshape companies, create communities, eliminate geography, and revitalise the art of letter writing in a generation which had been thought to have been rendered incapable of it by television.

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Within hours thousands of news services have been marking the geography of death and illness, pointing to an usually aggressive outbreak of what appears to be a rampant strain of E. coli.

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