Note, too, that most of the western hemisphere is not in the West, or in the East either.
But there is good reason to think that the market has not yet peaked: the northern hemisphere's winter is only now approaching, heating oil stocks are at extremely low levels on both sides of the Atlantic, and the price of natural gas (oil's chief rival for home heating) has lately gone through the roof.
As a well funded terrorist group with the capability to destabilize not only Colombia but the Andean hemisphere, the FARC continues to be a major concern.
Much attention in the run-up to the summit was on the drug issue, as well as on leaders from the hemisphere who are not present in the coastal city of Cartagena, Colombia.
Mr Anthony said that not everyone in the Western Hemisphere can proclaim the glories of trade liberalization.
He and the Canadian prime minister, Paul Martin, said that this free trade area for the Americas is not, quote, "about making the hemisphere safe for capitalists, " as some of the critics have said it is.
This has absorbed White House energies up to the point where other regions of the world, particularly, our Western Hemisphere does not seem to be on the radar of an Administration working under very hectic conditions of internal and external pressure.
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Look back to December 2, 1823, when President James Monroe sent his message to Congress, his State of the Union, warning powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
But if the ecumenists of the WCC and certain evangelicals are getting on better, it's probably because Christianity's centre of gravity is moving south to Africa and other poor places, where the ideological rows of the northern hemisphere often ring hollow, and churches dare not neglect either the spiritual or the material.
The northernmost Geopark of the network, not far from the Arctic Circle, is a unique combination of northern hemisphere geology, nature and culture.
For Lula da Silva, Friday's announcement in Copenhagen, Denmark, that Rio de Janeiro will host the 31st Olympiad in 2016 signified a major achievement not only for his hemisphere (no city in South America has ever before hosted the games) but for him -- a former autoworker and union organizer who defied dizzying odds to become president.
Unrest linked to the cost of food and fuel has occurred not only in Haiti -- the poorest country in the western hemisphere's --but in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal, according to the program.
Engine oils that are produced not far from this port get shipped to countries throughout the hemisphere.
But Johnson insists he is not intimidated by history or the standard of rugby played by the southern hemisphere teams in this summer's Tri-Nations.
His move from Wasps to Melbourne at the end of the season puts him out of England contention as Johnson will not pick southern hemisphere-based players.
That the climate suddenly cooled then, plunging the Northern Hemisphere back into an ice age for 1, 300 years, is not in doubt.
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They are cooler than the "Medieval Warm Period" about 1, 000 years ago when Eric the Red and his Icelandic Viking tribe settled on grasslands of Greenland's southwestern coast, and much warmer than about 400 years ago when the Northern Hemisphere plunged into depths of a "Little Ice Age" (not a true Ice Age).
This is cause for jubilation not only on the part of Nicaraguans but also for those in Central America and other parts of the hemisphere whose security was directly, or indirectly, threatened by Sandinista aggression.
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