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...Russians also appear to remain strongly opposed to NATO expansion. Why does President Bush want to expand the alliance eastward...
...around 13,000 years ago. Velda's people similarly dispersed northward from the Iberian Peninsula, while Tara and Katrine's clans spread northward from present-day Italy. The descendants of Xenia are thought to have spread from an origin in the Caucasus not only westward into Europe, but also eastward and into the Americas. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, Jasmine's people brought agriculture with them from Syria...
From the beginning of yugoslavia's violent dissolution a decade ago, the feared endpoint was war in Macedonia. Every knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear...
...photojournalist who had covered the Vietnam War. With a camera and a plane ticket, Paul set out to, as he says, "find his own war." He made it as far as Istanbul in 1981, when the military tensions in the Gulf got in the way of his eastward progress. On a tip from a fellow backpacker, he headed to Israel to find work at a kibbutz. He stayed for most of the next five years, laboring in the fields, managing irrigation systems and on one occasion coming close to live fire near the Lebanon border...
...smothered their ancient hatreds under new institutions like the European Community and nato. They used free trade and galloping technology to grow rich together. They contained a cunning, implacable Soviet Union. And as that evil empire imploded, they managed a soft landing: Germany's unification, nato's expansion eastward, Russia's evolution into a more or less friendly rival, the spread of peace and freedom (imperfectly, of course) to more people than at any time in history...