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...parks. Anderson notes that, “In a way, some of the inspiration for the movie is the architecture of the buildings there. The libraries and clubs and houses and things are unlike those any other place in America.” While the film features locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Paris and Jamaica, a large brownstone in Harlem that doubles as the Tenenbaum’s residence takes center stage...
...Lord of our far-flung battle-line?...
That's great for monolingual Americans. But chatting with headwaiters is one thing; selling overseas is another. With the global economy slumping, firms are looking for cost-effective ways to grow revenue anywhere they can. To reach customers in far-flung parts of the world, they've increasingly outsourced the translation of everything from computer-software programs to stock reports. Translation-services firms, as a result, are booming even as most U.S. service industries contract...
...terrorism will take the U.S.-led coalition to some far-flung frontiers, but probably none more desolate than the southern shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Once a balmy oasis of apricot groves, fields of watermelon and rivers of fish so fat that each could feed a family, this is now a poisoned desert of salt and brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges...
...acts of terrorism," but it's not yet clear where the blame lies. Asked whether he believes the letters are traceable to Osama bin Laden, President Bush replied, "I wouldn't put it past him." If the threat is coming from al-Qaeda or bin Laden, the operatives are far-flung: While at least one of the contaminated letters was postmarked in Malaysia, others were sent from Trenton, New Jersey and Boca Raton, Florida...