In the past, villagers say, distant officials would simply have issued arbitrary regulations.
If it goes on, astronomers say, distant galaxies will eventually be moving away so fast that we will not be able to see them anymore.
When people think of landscape photos, they typically envision a view of, say, distant mountains, but they fail to consider all of the things happening in the foreground that lead the eye to the mountains.
"The money has made relationships complicated," he said; distant family members and old acquaintances from school have approached him to ask for financial help.
Sample lyrics: "I know the medicine/That distant hugging/I said distant shaking/Distant kissing/Don't touch me!" With a line-up matching Band Aid 30, this anthem was recorded in October and is sung in French as well as indigenous languages spoken in west Africa.
"Courtney," Sugar says – distant, hopeful fantasies of them businessing together, lunching together, skipping hand-in-hand through golden fields, all dissipating to the dust – "You're Fired".
Mr. Obama, while athletic, is not exactly a great outdoorsman in the mold of, say, his distant cousin, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
It is far less egregious than, say, its distant Brooklyn cousin, "2 Broke Girls," which may have a more diverse cast but paints its minority characters (the diner boss, Han, and the cashier, Earl) with awful, gauche strokes.
What if, they say, a distant exoplanet has a moon with an atmosphere of its own?
The astronomers say the distant galaxy is making 260 times more stars than our Milky Way (pictured above): about 1820 every year compared with our seven.
Who are we talking about when we say: Nightbusses, distant memories of nights just passed, spliffs, Metal Gear Solid samples, rats gnawing on chicken bones, rain, Croydon.
