But there's a celebrity feeding frenzy half a world away from Hollywood, as I found out on a recent trip to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

不过据我最近去阿联酋迪拜和阿布扎比考察发现，远离好莱坞的世界那一头倒还很有油水可捞。

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Operators can now safely manipulate battlefield weapons from control rooms half a world away, as if they are playing a video game.

现在操控人员可以远在地球另一端的操作间内毫无性命之忧地遥控着战场武器系统，就好像他们正在玩一个视频游戏。

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A woman who had an affair with her married dance instructor kept the remains of their love-child hidden away from a disapproving world for half a century, an inquest was told yesterday.

昨天的一项警方问讯透露，一位和已婚舞蹈教练有染的妇女竟将自己与其的“爱情结晶”的尸体存放在一个鲜为人知的地方超过半个世纪。

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Everyone laughs at me, but I think it's worth coming from half a world away.

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The most obvious is quality control: the market is infested with snake-oil salesmen, and they are harder to spot from half a world away.

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And sailing close to the mushroom clouds, evacuating islanders who'd felt the ash rain down from a colonial power half a world away, was again a sure-fire way to win in the court of public opinion - even if the French government had not guaranteed itself a defeat by its cack-handed resort to force in Auckland.

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