For some writers it's a compulsion to go that distance and hear their voice as a remote echo.

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In the 1990s and 2000s, distance learning over the Internet became the dominant remote learning craze.

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The wireless remote can answer, decline and end calls from a distance, change input selection, or navigate tracks as well as adjust the volume.

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With gestures enabled, viewers can sit at a distance from their phones and motion in a manner similar to a remote control.

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Recent modelling studies show that the flux to remote areas of contaminants associated with micro-plastics is small compared with that from oceanic and especially long-distance atmospheric transport processes.

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