21.   For miles around, the grassy coastal landscape is marked only by wooden fences, grazing sheep and the occasional tin-roofed barn.

22.   From the back of a red pickup truck, a candidate named Kuk Kuli, the only man for miles around wearing a suit and tie, waved majestically.

23.   He set world records on concrete oval tracks, steeply banked, and some almost a third of a mile around.

24.   Hotels for miles around have been booked for a year or more.

25.   His new coffee house is the only one of its kind for miles around.

26.   Hotels for miles around said they were booked for the weekend, with people coming from across the country.

27.   In a poor, sun-blasted village, Nafas encounters Tabib, an American Muslim providing the closest thing to medical care for miles around.

28.   Like Chartres, Lincoln Cathedral and its towers are visible for miles around.

29.   Men told of Muslim women at the checkpoint who were humiliated in front of their children because there were no bathrooms for miles around.

30.   Ms. Ziai was well-known for miles around even before her son was elected president.