Word: afar
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...lucky enough to get a room with a view, you'll see it right away. A shimmering monument of white, it floats above the shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise?a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals...
...basis of these minor but distinctive differences, Haile-Selassie decided to classify the new human ancestor as a subspecies, or variant, of ramidus and has given it the name Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. (The name is derived from the local Afar language. Ardi means ground or floor; ramid means root; and kadabba means basal family ancestor. In accordance with the sometimes bizarre nomenclature of science, the younger creature now gets renamed Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus...
...work here is a combination of Chaz Scoggins, whom everyone likes, having great pull in this town, and also: Visitors from Westchester County are a little bit of esoterica in Lowell. The Spinners sell out all their tickets before Opening Day, but we guests from exotic lands, dignitaries from afar, get to sit a dozen rows up and square behind home. Caroline is rubbing her hands together with the thrill of it all. In the midst of a year that has seen too many hospital visits for and by various members of our family, I'm as happy...
...what it means to have studied at Harvard, and now to be graduating, but we do not know. In a kind of shock, we sit here before you, each moment trickling out before the next. From your vantage point, it must make some kind of sense; taken from afar, you may have the perspective in years and dollars paid of what this means today. Our mortarboards and sunglasses hide our confusion, as we huddle nervously between the trees...
There are few places he hasn’t visited. He has been seen lounging in rural Appalachia, and perched proudly on piers along eastern seaboard. He has hunted for grubs in the marshlands of Nova Scotia; he has cavorted with royal seagulls from afar; he has flown atop the Great Wall; he has been tete-a-tete with distinguished journalists at The Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau; and, most recently, he has been seen circling Tiananmen Square...