There are still jams to catch at long-standing haunts: Baby's All Right hosts Algiers (July 22), from the far-off tropic of Atlanta.
All you need (aside from the far-off storms that send good waves to whichever shore you happen to be standing vigil upon) is a surfboard, trunks or a wetsuit and at the very least a beat-up car to get you from one surf spot to another as the conditions change.
However, as the race moves from the far-off and hypothetical to the immediate and real -- with Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Giuliani campaigning as if Election Day were just weeks away -- the Times/CBS poll suggested some areas that are likely to draw the attention of both candidates in a contest that clearly leaves little margin for error.
There's also a fair bit of fury over revelations that the ABC essentially paid for Mallah's transport costs from the far-off land of Paramatta to the Q&A studios in Sydney, an epic 35km away.
Of course, they could be e-mailing their families and friends from the far-off countries from which they've come.
For many years, the predominantly Muslim nation of 29 million people was accustomed to reading bleak news from other Muslim countries in the far-off Middle East.
These include nonresidents and non-Democrats ranging from Billy Joel, the far-off New York singer, to Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Republican secretary of defense.
"I discovered," he said, when discussing his designs for Senate House, the mighty Portland stone tower that announces the University of London from far off, "the significance of form as distinct from the tricks of architectural ornament.
As there is no specific catchment area for a particular hospital, patients come from all over the city and from far off areas of the country.
The paint is handled so softly, especially in the background, that a critic of the day sniffed, "From far off one sees a bluish fog, from which six chocolate pastilles forcefully emerge".
The museum which was, at one time, not open to the public contains hundreds of skulls acquired from the gallows of Turin, "natives from far off lands," dead soldiers, and public autopsies.
