This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.
Upping the speed at which the wax was pulled apart produced a ridge like the fast-spreading (18cm a year) East-Pacific Rise.
Dr Bodenschatz then calculated the ratio of the highest points to the lowest points of both the real East-Pacific Rise and its wax model.
Ruben Canlas, Web Information Systems Consultant at the Asian Development Bank, Belina Capul, President of the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archives Association (SEAPAVAA) and Ray Edmonson, Director of Archive Associates, Australia and a UNESCO Memory of the World Committee Member.
It has also taken the lead in organising meetings of East Asian and Pacific central banks.
Plans are being made to drastically scale back naval operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
In testimony before the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 8 July 1997.
Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming), chairman of the East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee.
For example, the sea services will largely cease operating in South America and scale back operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
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An earlier aftershock damaged roads in Lata, a town on the Santa Cruz Island in the far east of the Pacific nation, which was badly hit by the waves.
If new anti-missile pacts emerge in the Middle East and the Pacific, with American or American-financed technology at their core, could the Atlantic alliance supposedly America's most important be left behind?
In 1982, when the job of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs became available and Wolfowitz asked for it, his boss, George Shultz, hesitated before granting the request.
The forecast, contained in its most recent East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, is 0.3% higher than its last estimate for the period and is in line with increasingly optimistic consensus views.
If anything, says Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster in Georgia, the country is dividing between the more tolerant attitudes of the North East and the Pacific, and the rest, which are getting more southern.
On Saturday, Webb -- who chairs the East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- held separate meetings with Suu Kyi and Myanmar's top official, junta leader Senior Gen.
Additional posts in Washington include: Assistant Office Director for Thailand and Burma in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1994-1996), and Director for Southeast Asian Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (1992-1994).
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It's looked not only at Brent crude but at some other exotic hydrocarbon cocktails - West Texas Intermediate, the Argus Sour Crude Index, Brent Blend or BFOE (the basket of the North Sea's Brent, Forties, Oseberg and Ekofisk), Dubai and Oman, Tapis and Minas, and East Siberia-Pacific Ocean Blend.
Dr. TRENBERTH: That's the warming of the waters out in the tropical Pacific, east of where they normally occur.
Many countries in east Asia and the Pacific have few resources other than the enterprise of their own people.
These are Indo-European, Bantu, Austronesian (from South-East Asia and the Pacific) and Uto-Aztecan (the native vernaculars of the Americas).
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Company executives expect strong demand going forward for products such as their missile-defense systems in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region.
In Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in East Asia and the Pacific, household contributions to both levels of secondary education range from 25% to 41% on average.
In East Asia and the Pacific, despite the fast progress in terms of secondary education enrolment, 10 million teenagers are still out of school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.
The prospects for girls have been improving in other regions such as East Asia and the Pacific, where the lower secondary gross enrolment ratio for girls grew from 75% to 91% between 1999 and 2009.
That, in turn, would leave the party with relatively few representatives outside their strongholds in the north-east and along the Pacific coast: an ironic reversal, when some Democrats claimed in 2008 that the Republicans were destined to be reduced to a southern rump.
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For starters, the president should use this occasion to make clear to the American people that the PRC is acting in an increasingly belligerent manner not only toward U.S. military vessels, aircraft, and personnel, but also toward allied democracies in the Western Pacific and East Asia.
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Toward this end the Bush Administration is reported to be developing a plan to supply the non-communist elements of the GCDK with urgently needed military assistance an approach very similar to that espoused by the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Pacific and East Asian Affairs, Representative Stephen Solarz.
There are now conference championships in the Big 12, Big 10, Big East, ACC, Pacific-12 and even the MAC and Conference USA. All of the inter-conference moves of late Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten, Louisville to the ACC and East Carolina and Tulane to the Big East were the most recent were all done for money, an indirect response to the original SEC Championship.
Barely-explored, PNG is set in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia and north of Australia.
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Construction of a new pipeline from East Siberian oilfields to the Pacific has begun.
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