A long way from home
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Arts & entertainment: Chinua Achebe, 'the father of modern African literature', talks to Ed Pilkington about his years in exile from his beloved Nigeria.
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Taking a look back a few years can be unreal. Things change so often that it can be hard to fathom the paths of life that take place.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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By AMY DICKINSON  Q. About three years ago, I moved across the country to start a new life.  Among my new friends is a woman, "Catherine." We share the same hobby and similar senses of humor, and we enjoy a good visit and a meal out every few months.
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Many who fled snow for the Sun Belt are moving back to be near family.
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They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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The sofa company is going east and north, not west.
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Congested highways and long security lines are likely to be part of the journey for many of the millions of Americans who are taking to the roads and skies for Thanksgiving. AAA, the automobile club, expects more than 38 million Americans to travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a 2.7 percent increase from last year.
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Carla Coco-Boutte stepped off the train for a brief Canadian excursion, but she wasn't looking for typical souvenirs such as aboriginal carvings or smoked salmon. The 51-year-old former airline employee planned to return to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., with an armload of prescription drugs she bought at a fraction of what she would pay at home.
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Whenever I speak of "going home," my friends know I'm visiting my folks who now live in Scotland.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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By Rob Kasper, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 9--Over the weekend we moved our home computer.   I thought this would be easier than moving furniture, say lugging a sofa bed up a flight of stairs.   Now I am not so sure.
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The journey home at the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend was smooth sailing for many travelers Sunday as the weather cooperated and more people had scheduled their flights to avoid the rush.
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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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I&#39;m leaving the Olympics and heading home, assuming the plane can lift me. This is a concern because I&#39;ve gained many kilometers of mass from eating Greek food, especially &quot;baklava
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WASHINGTON -- Political events in bordering countries can be as disturbing as a family from &quot;the other side of the tracks&quot; moving into one&#39;s neighborhood.
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For some college students, the hardest part about studying abroad wasn't adjusting to life in a foreign country. It was coming home.