11.  Americans often learn of distant places like this only when ancient hatreds turn them into caldrons of unbearable suffering.

12.  Another growing audience has New Age connections, seeking an abstract spirituality in rituals from distant places.

13.  But isolation has not protected oceanic birds nesting on Midway from environmental contaminants that originate in distant places.

14.  But real spas, the kind the spa people call destination spas, are distant places with curious ambitions.

15.  But there were also indications that the textiles had been made far from China, in places as distant as Baghdad.

16.  Casting and costume design, meanwhile, ensured that action took a distant second place to his role as an object of desire.

17.  Director Carter is gratified that so many choir alumnae are coming from distant places.

18.  Gordon won the race for the second time in three years and all Burton could do was settle for a distant second place.

19.  He also contends it is McCollum who would not make a second ballot runoff, maintaining Walker is actually in a distant second place.

20.  Home buyers in search of traditional suburban amenities, such as comparatively low home prices and lighter traffic, now leapfrog the Valley for more distant places.