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...many ways, Gujarat is the best and worst of India. For years the state, which juts westward into the Arabian Sea, has been one of the most economically forward-looking regions in the country; its diamond-cutting and textile industries earn India hundreds of millions of dollars in exports. But Gujurat was also the scene of some of the worst sectarian violence since independence, when communal riots killed as many as 2,000 people - most of them Muslim...
...remaking Jerusalem into two capitals--for though the city is crisscrossed by a thousand invisible lines that separate the lives of Arabs and Israelis, those lines can be porous, allowing a current of people and influences to flow back and forth. Upper-class Arab women cross westward for Pilates classes or to go shopping, and Israelis venture into the Old City for tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped...
Americans aren't the only ones squabbling over immigration. As more nations join the European Union, massive influxes of migrants are moving westward. Latest official figures don't capture some movement, like the exodus of Poles to Britain. But the stress is beginning to show: Italy has been in a recent uproar since a Romanian immigrant was charged with the murder of an Italian woman outside Rome...
...While H5N1 is difficult for humans to catch, experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a deadly flu pandemic. Microbiologist Hugh Pennington of the University of Aberdeen said the latest outbreak is part of a "steady creep westward" by the strain from its original hothouse of Southeast Asia...
...Santa Ana winds begin cold, gathering power and mass in the high desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Air pressure pushes the winds up and over the San Gabriel Mountains, westward toward the Pacific Ocean, until gravity takes hold. The air becomes compressed as it drops, growing hotter and dryer, stripping moisture from the ground, accelerating - sometimes past 100 m.p.h. (160 km/h) - as it squeezes through Southern California's many canyons...