In 2005 he bought a Kraft Foods yogurt plant in a neighboring town and worked on perfecting the recipe for Greek-style yogurt.

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The site, atop a 1, 500-foot ridge in the neighboring town of Jackson, 35 miles northeast of Albany, had long been known to locals as Indian Ovens.

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Around that time, his wife-to-be Sandy, a Japanese-American friend of the family who grew up in a neighboring town, told him she wouldn't move down from San Francisco to be with him unless they got married, and he wouldn't get married unless he had a job.

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She was considered the village chef and cooked for the school, the church and the weekend soccer games that flooded the town with visitors from neighboring villages.

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Hundreds of Sunni families also left the town, many going to neighboring Lebanon, said international aid workers in Lebanon.

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As they bury their dead and watch efforts to recover more bodies, local residents fear that more violence from the conflict raging in the neighboring country will spill over into the town.

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The people of Kfar Saba, 15 miles outside of Tel Aviv, provide as middling a view of Israel as you're liable to get anywhere, even though their town lies just two miles from neighboring Palestinian Kalkilya.

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The rampage in Winnenden, a small town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart, and spread to neighboring Wendlingen.

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Sag Harbor, an old whaling town, has prided itself on being the "Unhampton" grittier than its elite neighboring villages, and perhaps more artsy than East Hampton or Southampton.

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