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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Half a world a way? Not quite...

Posted on 7:14 AM by jackline
According to this interesting tool on an Indonesian tourism website, the straight-line distance between Houston, Texas and Dubai, United Arab Emirates is 8,181 miles.So, when I told people in Houston before I left that I would be traveling halfway around the world for business, I wasn't being completely accurate.The earth's average circumference is about 24,881.3 miles (I say "average" because
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