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For many developing countries, high oil and food prices represent a triple threat: not only do importing countries have to pay more for grain, they have to pay more to bring it to their countries and still more to deliver it to consumers who may live a long distance from ports.

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Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance, so to speak.

And he said one day, "What's the shortest distance between two points?"

And he said, "That is the shortest distance between two points."

Today we know that families are living further and further apart, and that definitely takes a toll on family relationships and family bonds over distance.

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