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Transportation of oil has also long hindered Russian oil from reaching the United States, which imports eight million barrels a day, primarily from the Middle East. Until now, most Russian oil has reached Western Europe??whether through Ukraine and Belorus, Northern Europe, or Turkey and the Mediterranean. But after Sept. 11, the United States has become increasingly concerned that dependence on Middle Eastern oil could jeopardize national security. As a result, Russia’s five largest oil companies have been looking into constructing a pipeline from Western Siberia to Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean. From there...
...being exposed to lifestyles very different from my own, and exposure is very important. I’m being globalized. Now I have friends from so many different places—India, Mexico, Eastern Europe??I feel more connected to everybody now even than just a month ago,” she says. “This is reality, my world is not just Nepal, it consists of all these other people, you can’t isolate yourself. I’m part of a global community. That’s perspective I need no matter what...
...compiler of hospital birth-certificates, Mr. Wilcox, suggests naming “him after yourself, or one of your ancestors,” the parents are horrified. “This tradition doesn’t exist for Bengalis…this sign of respect in America and Europe??would be ridiculed in India...
...chance that many Europeans see February 15, 2003—the day when millions of antiwar demonstrators engulfed virtually every large city in Europe??as the birth date of something akin to a European nation. There is no way to tell whether this sentiment will endure, but active opposition to the U.S. has clearly given Europeans a common bond that they can experience on an emotional level...
...exceptions, of course. Karl Marx voiced his outspoken support of the Union in its struggle against the Confederacy, and a few social democratic and liberal intellectuals—in the European sense—expressed favorable views of the United States. But on the whole, negative views predominated among Europe??s elites, regardless of country or political conviction...