• At the moment, accounting in China is a bit like the Wild West of America in the 1800s.

    FORBES: How to Ensure Strong Boards and Proper Accounting Standards in China

  • In the past decade, 1m non-native Atlantic salmon have escaped from fish farms and established themselves in streams in the north west of America.

    ECONOMIST: Fish farming

  • On Thursday, Tropical Storm Alma, the first one of the year in the eastern Pacific, formed near the west coast of Central America, according to the National Weather Service.

    CNN: Few coast dwellers ready for a hurricane, poll shows

  • In 2010, Mr. Christie announced an agreement with Triple Five, the developer of the Mall of America in Minnesota and the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta.

    WSJ: Jets, Giants Sue Over Mall Complex Near Their New Jersey Stadium

  • The Iraqi people's "struggle... is actually our struggle too, which is why we will see it through until it finishes - not in the victory of America, Britain or the West but the victory of the Iraqi people", Mr Blair added.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Straw and Allawi hold Iraq talks

  • Some native American tribes in the north-west of America believe the Sasquatch is real.

    BBC: On the trail with Bigfoot-hunters

  • What strikes the author most is the uncertainty and flux of their lives as they and their circle improvised their way through the confusion of French, Spanish and British jurisdictions in the West Indies and America, and through the creeping, morphing status of the British in India.

    ECONOMIST: Retracing the steps of one 18th-century Scottish family

  • Steve Walt show clearly, the bastions of intellectual elitism where American Jews feel most at home have become the repositories of the most virulent hatred of Jews in America and the West today.

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  • Well, you can say that we are in fairly good shape in the war on terror, but doing very poorly in the war of radical Islam against America and the West.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Seven years since 9/11

  • The study hinges on the analysis of existing fossils found in western North America, from Canada through to the south-west of the US, where the fossils of small reptiles are much better preserved than in other parts of the world.

    BBC: Obama-named lizard was wiped out with the dinosaurs

  • In 2007, following the merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, the transition caused the airline's check-in kiosks to crash across the country.

    WSJ: American, US Airways Face Challenges in Integration

  • The island, today a state park, used to be the West Coast twin of Ellis Island in the east, and is the place where America showed a very different face to yellow newcomers than to white ones.

    ECONOMIST: An official apology for the past marks a story of success

  • Like the Panama Canal, which opened almost six decades later, the railway was built to expedite trade shipments between America's west and east coasts in the wake of the Californian Gold Rush.

    WSJ: Travel: It's a Jungle Out There | The Panama Canal Railway

  • He voted in favour of the NAFTA free-trade area in 1993, but on the campaign trail, especially in the downtrodden mid-west, he has promised to review all of America's free-trade agreements.

    ECONOMIST: A bruising battle ahead | The

  • Most of the Islamic world is not set on the destruction of the West, but when they see their own suffering in stark contrast to America's prosperity, they become desperate, and bombing them willy nilly is not going to change that.

    BBC: World Trade Centre: Could the attacks have been prevented?

  • The last time the Justice Department reviewed an airline merger was in 2005, when it approved the marriage of US Airways and America West.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The last time the Justice Department reviewed an airline merger was in 2005, when it approved the marriage of US Airways and America West (nyse: LCC - news - people ).

    FORBES: Election Sets A Deal Deadline

  • But the Middle East looms equally large in one of the key swing states in America's mid-west, Michigan.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • By the end of the 20th century he no longer expected revolution in the West (nor in Latin America, though he was feted there, especially in Brazil and Paraguay).

    ECONOMIST: Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st, aged 95

  • In 2007, following the merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, the integration of the carriers' reservation systems caused the airline's check-in kiosks to crash across the country.

    WSJ: Delays Hit 1,300 American Airlines Flights

  • Moreover, peace between Israel and Syria would need backing from America, whose attitude to Mr Assad's regime has been to isolate and punish it for its suspected hand in killing Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, and for its support of America's enemies in Iraq and Israel's in the West Bank and Gaza.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • It takes the form of fictionalized accounts (such as Fox's wildly popular drama, "24") and factual documentaries (like programs aired this weekend on Fox News and CNN about, respectively, the operations of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in America and the virulent hatred towards the West being incubated by Islamists in places like the United Kingdom).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Truth to Power

  • GDP, and the west-coast ports carry over half of the cargo that is shipped in and out of America in containers.

    ECONOMIST: The president and the dockers

  • Poor countries may suffer when they lose their best brains to the West: 43% of Liberian doctors, for example, now work in North America.

    ECONOMIST: Migration

  • All of this is important because the freedom of radical extremists to operate in Somalia is a direct threat to America and the West.

    WSJ: Somali Extremists Have al Qaeda Ties

  • Consider the lives saved as a result of thwarting just two of KSM's deadlier plots: One was an attack aimed at Heathrow Airport and the other was to have hit a West Coast version of the World Trade Center, likely the Trans America building in San Francisco.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Going Wobbly'

  • Thirty-three of the 48 American banks that offer international remittance services are in the mid-west, and America's bank regulators are encouraging the efforts.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • Emerging economies' rising heft will also undermine some of the cushy global arrangements that have benefited the West, such as, in America's case, the dollar's reserve-currency status.

    ECONOMIST: A view from an economist at HSBC

  • There are people in Iran who would love not to make it about one side in Iran versus another, but to make this about Iran versus the West or Iran versus the United States of America.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • This explanation notes that tens and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Turks, Egyptians and others voluntarily congregate in public venues and swoon when Islamist leaders tell them that Islam will defeat the West and promise the death of America and the death of Israel.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: One civilization clashing

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