One can trace such expeditions back to ancient Sumeria, the earliest known Middle Eastern civilization.

这样的探险可以追溯到古苏美尔时期，这是已知的最早的中东文明。

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One encouraging finding: most of the genetic defects identified in the Middle Eastern families were not in the business part of the gene -the part that codes for a critical brain protein.

一个令人振奋的发现：在中东家庭里发现的大多数遗传缺陷并不在基因的商业部分里——鉴定大脑蛋白质的密码。

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Such comparisons are doubtless unfair.The East Asian context is very different from the Middle Eastern one, and seen from the Pacific perspective South Korea's achievement looks less unique.

这样子对比无疑是不公平的，东亚的环境和中东很不一样，从整个太平洋地区来看，韩国的成就并没有多稀奇。

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Of the top 100 most popular YouTube channels that aren't industry-sponsored, there is one black creator, four Asians and one of Middle Eastern descent, according to Web researcher Jenny Unghba Korn.

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Their pretext was one with which most Middle Eastern dictators would sympathise: security.

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Iran's nuclear ambitions occupy only one of the distant Middle Eastern hornets' nests China would prefer to avoid but cannot.

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