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...last year, trade between the two Germanys had reached $5.3 billion, providing an estimated 70,000 jobs on both sides of the border. On a more personal level, Ostpolitik allowed tens of thousands of German families to be reunited, a process that continues. Western influence flows steadily eastward on the airwaves: more than two-thirds of East Germany's population live within range of West German television, and most of them tune in regularly...
...flow for miles underground, often rising to the surface through faults and porous rock far from any source of uranium. In fact, the Watras house is located in a region called the Reading Prong, from which larger-than-normal quantities of radon rise. The region stretches from Reading, Pa., eastward across northern New Jersey and into New York State, High levels of indoor radon have also been found in Maine, New Hampshire, central Florida, Idaho, Montana, the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, California and Washington State...
...ancient Sogdian capital of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan?one of the last of Alexander the Great's conquests before he went south to India?and moves east through the now vanished western kingdoms of Khotan, Kroraina and Miran before ending in China. Over the course of this journey eastward, remarkably well preserved 1,000-year-old manuscripts and icons reveal the growth and evolution of the Silk Road's most illustrious commodity: Buddhism. The merging and morphing of regional beliefs produced versions of Buddhism quite unlike the original that took shape in India...
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, currently the librarian and deputy director of Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, will head eastward this September when she becomes the new Harvard University Archivist under Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, director of the University Library...
...EASTWARD CRUISE: Tom may be the last samurai, but he's hardly the least...