Word: regionals
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...physics that links the atmosphere to the ocean. What allows El Nino to affect weather worldwide is the intrusion of unusually warm water into the eastern Pacific. As this happens, storms (which feed off warm water) inevitably move eastward. But once the eastern Pacific cools, storm formation in this region shuts down. At that point, any further cooling triggered by La Nina can have only a small effect...
...promised a lucrative payoff: more than $40,000 for each property it leases, plus royalties as high as 25% on the sale of the uranium ore. For some Navajo landowners that could translate into more than $1 million a year--a nice paycheck anywhere, but especially in a region with double-digit unemployment and an average annual income of less than $10,000. Hydro Resources president Richard Clement Jr. says his company will eventually employ about 150 local workers to develop the site, one of the two largest beds of untapped uranium...
...citizens on my route through the northern Yunnan region--mountainous, isolated, populated predominantly by Tibetans and other non-Chinese ethnic minorities clinging determinedly to their traditions on their red-brown earth--have been relatively late in embracing tourism. Stretches of the area are closed to foreign travelers. Zhongdian, the town which I am currently exploring, still has a rough-hewn, construction-made frontier feel, and Degen was opened up to foreigners less than a year ago. Through the long days of riding rickety minibuses whose doors are kept shut with screwdrivers, my excitement would rise with the knowledge that...
...embracing China and its future so publicly, Clinton sent shudders through other countries in the region. Japan was worried, Taiwan was dismayed and India was furious. Nor was Clinton's audience of critics back home fully convinced. "There's no question he has given [Beijing] a public relations coup," says Representative Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. "How the regime responds will determine the ultimate success of the summit." The Chinese, says James Lilley, a former ambassador to Beijing, made Clinton look good, "and they made Jiang Zemin look as though he could handle the Americans...
...sanctions: "Sanctions tend to work for a limited period, after which they inevitably begin to collapse," says Dowell. "Washington's long-term sanctions against various countries have been very unpopular around the world, and their value has often been questionable." But with U.S. standing in the region at a low ebb following the Iraq crisis and the collapse of the Mideast peace process, there may not be much Washington can do to keep gentleman callers off Muammar's porch...