Travel agents, hotels and airlines have faced tough times, with visitor arrivals to the Asia-Pacific region falling nearly three percent in late 2008.

2008年下半年，到达亚太地区的航空游客数量减少了约三个百分点，旅行社、酒店和航空公司的日子都很不好过。

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Our exports are growing at a rate nearly four times faster than our overall economy, further underscoring the importance of the Pacific Rim to American jobs and global growth.

我们的出口增长率几乎是我国总体经济增长率的4倍，这进一步凸显了环太平洋地区对美国就业和全球经济增长的重要性。

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The quantity of rare earth elements buried in the Pacific Ocean is estimated to be 90 billion tons, or 800 times larger than the 110 million tons buried on land.

太平洋底蕴藏的稀土元素资源量估计达900亿吨，比其1.1亿吨的陆地蕴藏量多800多倍。

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He loved to sail, and he traveled many times across the Pacific Ocean.

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The Asia-Pacific travel industry is on the rise after two years of hard times caused by soaring fuel prices and the global economic slump.

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White has added a few new picks that he expects to be winners, including Samsung Electronics (trading at 6.2 times forward earnings), the drugmaker Aventis (44 times earnings) and the conglomerate Canadian Pacific (9.1 times earnings).

FORBES: Another Look

This weighting methodology tends to skew the index to European stocks at times, and Pacific Rim stocks at other times, depending on the economics and currency fluctuations in those regions.

FORBES: Split the EAFE for Better Returns

Indeed, governments and aerospace companies have periodically flirted with building a son-of-Concorde, which could cross the Pacific and carry three times as many passengers.

ECONOMIST: Why Concorde was never the right way to speed up air travel