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The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power—developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles—helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.
In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.
Solutions came from as far afield as Brazil.
After an easy side-trip from Florence to Fiesole, our itineraries go farther afield — west to Pisa and Lucca before turning south through the hills of Chianti to Siena.
Saying she shared "the sense of disappointment and bewilderment" over the Lewinsky affair and the bombings in Sudan and Afghanistan, Holland said she also believed "there are very many people alive in Ireland, and further afield, today who would be dead were it not for President Clinton's commitment to the search for peace in Northern Ireland."