With the Spanish-American War and the rise of American imperialism, Americans began to focus much more seriously on faraway places.
Barry Gosin, chief executive of Newmark & Company Real Estate, a brokerage and management company, said New York is much more sensitive to faraway events then it once was because of the links among financial markets.
Henry Tirri, the Nokia senior vice president in charge of the company's global research centers, said cellphones of the not-so-distant future would contain supersensors, like higher-quality camera lenses that will see faraway detail much more clearly than the naked eye.
To lead a truly ethical life, he writes, we should be doing much more to help poor people in faraway places.
"Having a water trail right here makes much more sense than driving off to some faraway lake to find your fun," Buell said.
"This country is built on so many pillars including those who come from faraway lands with not much more than hope and a drive for a better life with their family," he said.
Faraway bipolar nebulae display this predilection much more than nearby cosmic butterflies do, the researchers said.
It is much more difficult to eliminate cross talk between adjacent open-wire pairs than it is to eliminate interference from a faraway source.
And there's the much darker, much more immediate fear stalking the land – that shared by people with foreign accents, with names that show roots in faraway climes, with skin that just isn't really white enough to avoid comment now, is it?
The more faraway in the mists, the warmer the memory for Bill.
