In August 1983 a bomb wrecked La Maison France, West Berlin's French cultural centre less than a kilometre from one of Carlos's safe houses on the communist eastern side.
A year after Damilola's death, Tony Blair and his wife Cherie visited the North Peckham estate to open the refurbished youth centre less than 100 yards from the stairwell where his body had been found.
Its role as a major medieval trading centre in north-western Belgium, with its centre less than 10 miles from the sea, means that its merchants' houses and public squares are now all graciously old and greetings-card pretty.
But even after two of the jets had ploughed into the World Trade Centre less than an hour later, Americans still had no idea of the scale of devastation that was yet to unfold upon them.
But now senior politicians have joined forces with the booksellers of Hay-on-Wye to warn that the town's future is being put in jeopardy by the online retailer Amazon – and its vast distribution centre less than 50 miles away in Swansea.
The process begins at an endoscopy centre less than a mile away, where donor poo is inserted into sedated patients: up one end through a colonoscope and down the other through an endoscope that extends past the throat and stomach to the jejunum – the midsection of the small intestine.
7 None of 53 children who had visited the centre less than 3 days were infected, suggesting that brief exposure less than 24 h may not be dangerous.
In our centre, less than 5% of biopsies require the use of computed tomography (CT), or more recently cone beam CT in an angiography suite (Fig. 2).
In a previous issue, Campbell et al (2002) found significant difference in the delay between people living far from a cancer centre (more than 58 km) and those living near a cancer centre (less than 5 km).
While radiation oncology services and some medical oncology services are offered at Ontario's regional cancer centres, an analysis of referral patterns for cancer surgery in Ontario identified that teaching centres (which include some cancer centres) performed less than 40% of the surgical procedures for breast cancer and colorectal cancer [ 1].
