Word: faraway
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...Worm's house, Spider is revolted by the leaves and rotten tomatoes served for dinner. Conversely, Worm is disgusted when Spider molts. Spider, much like his young readers, is a little guy trying to learn how to navigate the world. He dreams of soaring on the wind to faraway places like his grandpa, who one day floats across the ocean to Paris. But happily, he is solidly grounded in everyday mischief, as when he laughs about grossing out people by spinning a huge sticky web on a water fountain or when he confides that "butterflies taste better with a little...
...years ago, Mathew Gross, 32, was a free-lance writer living in tiny Moab, Utah. Rob Malda, 28, was an underperforming undergraduate at a small Christian college in Michigan. Denis Dutton, 60, was a professor of philosophy in faraway Christchurch, New Zealand. Today they are some of the most influential media personalities in the world...
...watch an NBA game of the week on broadband. "There's nothing little about what we're doing in China," says Ueberroth, who in her 11 years with the league has negotiated television and sponsorship deals in Mexico City, Moscow and New Delhi. (When not selling hoops in faraway places, she visits them, having scuba-dived in Fiji and Belize.) Sports run in Ueberroth's blood: her father Peter organized the 1984 Olympics, ran Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989 and is now the chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee. --By Sean Gregory...
...Woodstock scope called World Youth Day, 15 miles outside of Cologne. Some cheer the sight on the screen, others clasp their hands in prayer. There are also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others walking in a head-up, open-mouth trance. Whether he likes it or not, Pope Benedict XVI is a star. He the first pontiff elected in the full throes of the information age, and his predecessor's sense of spectacle consecrated a natural marriage between this ancient office...
...Still, says Rather, it was Jennings' hard-earned perspective as a foreign correspondent that defined him most. "Peter was a master at telling a story, reporting in such a way that it told people back home why some of these datelines in faraway places with strange sounding names were important to Main Street, America," says Rather. "I will miss him. But I think the news will miss him even more...