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...took Nagumo's fleet five days to reach the rendezvous point at Hitokappu Bay in the Kuriles just north of Japan's main islands. Fog swirled over the desolate outpost, and snow fell intermittently as the fleet steamed eastward at dawn...
...Germans were 60 miles from Moscow, and the capital was in a panic. Muscovites were stampeding out of the city, packing railway stations, crammed into trucks, huddled in carts. By the end of the month, 2 million had evacuated eastward in what the Soviets still call "the big skedaddle...
...westward movement across the continent would marginalize or exclude Native Americans. It would make African Americans ask, 'Who booked my passage?' It would make Hispanics say, 'We stood still and the border moved to the other side of us.' And it would make Asian Americans wonder, 'What about eastward movement rather than westward movement...
...efforts fail, however, the disease could continue its eastward march and strike such major coastal cities as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are teeming with favelas, or slums. "That would be disastrous," says Afonso Infurna Jr., vice president of the Brazilian commission. "Health and hygiene conditions are already poor, and the disease could spread rapidly." Although Infurna and other commission officials predict they will contain the infection, they admit that the cost of treating a full-scale epidemic would be high -- on the order of $600 million...
...utility rates in their region among the lowest in the nation. Soon they may have to decide which they love more. Eight power-generating dams built along the Columbia River since the late 1930s have fatally disrupted the path by which thousands of the salmon once swam 900 miles eastward from the Pacific Ocean to spawning grounds in the Snake River basin. Last year fishery-service counters there spotted just one lonesome sockeye...