Word: distantly
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...when it comes to communicating with patients, Brickell has a problem: she's too healthy. Like most of her classmates, she has spent very little time as a patient. She has never had to weigh the advice of a trusted friend against conflicting orders given by a cold and distant doctor. She has never had to take daily injections for a disease she doesn't understand. She has rarely even gone through the most basic crucible of illness in the U.S., the interminable wait in a doctor's office...
...profitable sheep farming. It was only after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 that ordinary Scots were able to take back control over the way Scottish land was owned and used. Now the Scottish government is offering help to communities that want to buy their land from distant landlords. In 2002 the tiny isle of Gigha, off the west coast, was purchased by its residents. All but two local houses were near uninhabitable. Now the houses have been renovated, and 25 new jobs have been created, along with a wind farm. "It was like a big cloud lifting...
...Golf has targets just as small and distant-and makes people just as obsessive. The difference with shooting is that, well, you do it with guns. And bullets. Which were invented for one purpose: war. Beyond the shooting range's black-and-yellow targets hover ghosts. My club, Sydney's Royal Australian Naval Reserve Rifle Club, has its origins in the military. Most of the 170 members are civilians, but every Saturday, builders, bankers, surgeons, ex-servicemen, chiropractors, chefs and electricians-men and women, from teenagers to 80-year-olds-compete in honor of some milestone in military history: last...
...seems ripe for a meltdown, yet like so many other plants nationwide, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has allowed it to increase its output by 20 percent. The plant should have expired years ago, but instead it was purchased and upgraded by Entergy, a company based out of conveniently distant Louisiana...
...Amongst the Canadians, my own thoughts returned to all the unexamined aspects of Great Falls, Montana, the distant and dull place where I grew up and attended school...