Word: farawayness
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...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...
...Shan orphans are among the most vulnerable victims of policies hatched in faraway Bangkok and Rangoon. The Shan are the largest of Burma's eight main ethnic minorities, which form a third of the country's 43 million population. Many of the groups are fighting for independence from the rule of the military junta. In recent months, the Burmese army and its proxies have stepped up efforts against ethnic insurgents such as the Shan and the Karen, driving thousands of refugees into Thailand. There, they receive cold comfort. The Thai government does not grant official refugee status to the Shan...
...1960s and 1970s, when juvenile delinquents were called juvenile delinquents, youth gangs stuck close to home and defended their turf against invasion by other gangs. No more. The age of the mobile youth gang has arrived. Striking out from poorer neighborhoods, they are fanning into wealthy areas and often faraway towns, breaking into jewelry stores and snatching wallets from pedestrians...