Word: westwards
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...history shows something different. It begins with what was called, in our high school history classes “westward expansion”—a euphemism for the annihilation or expulsion of the Indian tribes inhabiting the continent—all in the name of ”progress” and “civilization.” It continues with the expansion of American power into the Caribbean at the turn of the century, then into the Philippines, and then repeated marine invasions of Central America and long military occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
...virus that was part human, part avian. Much luck, hard scientific labor and prompt containment measures prevented that outbreak from turning into a global catastrophe. Next time we might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...
...would become very excited. And I've never seen Al go very far off course. He's a pretty steady pilot." He had to be, considering that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short...
...Olympic National Park owl crew in Washington State. Today, a chance sighting of a spotted owl in the wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled to a few thousand birds. Forced from the dwindling groves of spruce and hemlock trees, the owls have retreated slowly westward over the last few decades. Now, just miles from the Pacific, in the low river valleys beneath the Olympic mountains, the spotted owl is living out its numbered days...
...NetEase, the sector's most striking turnaround, has been especially aggressive in tapping what many consider the Internet's true killer app: massive, real-time, multiplayer online games. In August, NetEase began charging for Westward Journey II and Priston Tale, both of which have huge followings in China. Though he won't provide exact figures, acting NetEase CEO Ted Sun says "a substantial proportion" of the company's $7.3 million in third-quarter nonadvertising revenues came from games. (Just last week Sina followed suit by inking a deal with NCsoft, a major Korean game company...