Five hundred miles away in Amman, Faysal Yasiri is watching the broadcast with greater interest than most.

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Several hundred miles away in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ory Okolloh was receiving reports from the scene verified by an NGO, and uploading them onto a public Web site.

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It was bound for Fuzhou, fourteen hundred miles away.

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Row upon row of the mobile homes, nearly identical, all covered with white aluminum siding, sit unoccupied, while just a few hundred miles away on the Gulf Coast an estimated 98, 000 people still lack temporary housing.

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For example, Lisa McNeilly, a collaborator on the report, said it might be cheaper for a rural town that currently does not have electricity to construct a wind or solar energy facility in the village instead of wiring in electricity from a power plant located a hundred miles away.

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Too early for anything but the Babies' Ward (officially called the Children's Ward), where I went every afternoon to take the babies in my lap for a wheelchair spin around the walkways, pretending they were mine for keeps, these orphan babies whose parents were off in their own houses in other towns, like my parents three hundred long miles away in Washington.

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Considering that all this food is only fifty to a hundred and fifty miles away, there is little reason to doubt that the problem will soon be solved.

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