Word: easternism
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...Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union...
Oceania 53,711 South America 36,988 Middle Africa 20,889 North America 16,801 Eastern Europe...
...Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once covered virtually the whole of eastern Brazil...
...inundated Orange Island, which sits 75 kilometers from Dongting Lake, there were no tears and little anger. This is the fifth time in a decade that the Yangtze and its tributaries have threatened to turn much of eastern China into a lake. Nobody has died on Orange Island this year, although rising water and landslides have killed a thousand people across China since June. (Another quarter of a million, say government officials, have fled for higher ground as floods destroyed 27,000 homes.) This year's flooding doesn't compare to the devastation in 1998, when 4,000 people perished...
DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA, 87, Indian guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival by teaching the crowds to chant "om"; in Madras. A native of South India, the thickly bearded swami went to the U.S. in 1966 on the crest of a wave of counterculture interest in Eastern religion, and he eventually served as spiritual adviser to such celebrities as Carole King, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. Satchidananda founded a number of ashrams, including Yogaville in Virginia, where he made his home. At Woodstock he shared the stage with rock luminaries Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...