So Long, Long Distance
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AT&T turns its business focus away from traditional phone service.
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HERE was a time, not so long ago in my more carefree youth, when I was a dedicated backpacker.   It went beyond the standard gapyear routine, and most summers I could be found in some distant corner of the globe, living the life of an adrenaline junkie.
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Traveling this Thanksgiving may not be as easy as it was last year. And that is both good and bad news. On the upside: The long lines at airports
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On Monday evening, my wife reached me on my mobile phone. She was spending a long weekend with her family in Maine.
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Long distance doesn&#39;t mean much to a 17-year-old who can call friends in a dozen states and never have to worry how much it will cost, as long as she doesn&#39;t go over her wireless minutes.
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My friend talks rapidly on the phone. Her husband has just been diagnosed with a rare skin cancer. It is a second marriage for both, a good marriage. But suddenly they've started to bicker. This is not like them. The change is scary. What is happening here?
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Bidding his desk job goodbye, a web designer is taking his Segway scooter on a cross-country trek from Seattle to Boston. Friends are documenting the 10-mile-per-hour trip along the way. By Rachel Metz.
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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Teacher Dave Barclay flew thousands of miles across the Atlantic to Wales to attend his friend&#39;s wedding, only to discover he was a year early.
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Right now, the bigger they are, the larger the haul.
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By Aranee Jaiimsin, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb.
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By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Mar.
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Around this time last year I was preparing for midterms at the University of Southern California, managing a long-distance relationship and preparing to embark on one of the greatest assignments ever.
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The mail must get through, but sometimes it takes a little time &#151; in this case, 54 years. A letter mailed on Sept. 22, 1950, in Oslo, made it to Halden, less than 55 miles away, this week, the local newspaper Halden Arbeiderbladet reported Thursday.
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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Much more than hot dogs, beaches and long weekends.
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Electronic communication is nearly instantaneous, essentially wiping out time and distance. But what is being said using all this marvelous technology? That's what really matters. Commentary by Tony Long.