Word: eastern
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...Ninos grow in strength with each degree of change in ocean temperature, La Ninas do not. The reason can be traced to the physics that links the atmosphere to the ocean. What allows El Nino to affect weather worldwide is the intrusion of unusually warm water into the eastern Pacific. As this happens, storms (which feed off warm water) inevitably move eastward. But once the eastern Pacific cools, storm formation in this region shuts down. At that point, any further cooling triggered by La Nina can have only a small effect...
LOCATION Davos is in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubunden, an overflowing but still charming agglutination of hotels and pensions...
...government appoints new representatives to the Czech Republic, the eastern European country's own parliamentary-style government remains shaken after elections last month. The previous government led by the Civic Democratic Party (CDP) collapsed in June, prompting emergency elections for a new prime minister and for representatives to one of the houses of parliament...
Growing up in eastern Tennessee, Alice Wilkinson liked nothing better than listening to her grandmother talk about the family's past. Little did she imagine that this childhood fascination would lead to a 17-year quest for her roots and the discovery that she is related to Revolutionary War soldiers as well as fighters on both sides in the Civil War, and that she shares ancestors with former pro quarterback Terry Bradshaw, Senator Strom Thurmond and Elvis Presley. "All of a sudden I have connections to all this American history," marvels the 62-year-old retired schoolteacher. Looking...
...should have happened years ago. Formosan termites first arrived on the mainland U.S. just after World War II, experts believe, carried from Far Eastern ports in planks or packing crates by military cargo ships. For decades, nobody worried much about them, thanks largely to powerful pesticides that drove them away from houses. But the termites simply turned their attention to nearby trees, where they thrived largely unnoticed...