For decades, rich Gulf Arabs have paid for South-East Asian students to study Islam in its Arab heartland.
If that happens, "the effects could be severe, " warns World Bank senior economist Richard Newfarmer, who led the team that released a major study of East Asia's recovery in June.
Gintaras's experience is echoed by a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study into East European immigration and community cohesion, based around interviews with migrants in Brighton and Hove and the London boroughs of Hackney and Harrow.
Another study showed that east-coast teams scored 1.24 more runs than usual in the first two days against teams that travelled in from the west coast.
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The area came out ahead of Shetland, East Dunbartonshire and East Lothian in the annual Bank of Scotland study.
Experts from Shandong, a province in the north-east of China, were asked to produce a feasibility study, and the government now proposes to start work.
But his main expertise, acquired over decades of scholarly study, is in the Soviet Union and its east European empire.
The Roundtable also was the occasion for remarks by two of the authors of a study sponsored by the respected Washington Institute for Near East Policy that arrived at somewhat different conclusions.
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East said he had no idea on exactly how long the feasibility study would take, but it would start "as soon as we can".
Diplomacy to resolve the Middle East's other problems is key to a solution in Iraq, the study group said.
One study by Australia's central bank calculated that a third of East Asia's GDP growth in 1965-90 came from its favourable demography.
Feith -- and two of the authors of another study of the Golan issue published last month by the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, Michael Eisenstadt and Andrew Bacevich .
"When you increase the shrub cover you trap more snow, which keeps the soil warmer, " said Sturm, calling by cellphone 70 miles east of Nome, Alaska, in a small village that serves as his base to study seasonal snow changes.
The study immediately caught the eye of chemist Edwin Villhauer and his colleagues at Novartis in East Hanover, N.
Scott's study had limitations, but there is a long history of Acinetobacter infections in the Middle East.
Now, that is a fair and objective critique of a rigorous study that was peer-reviewed and approved for publication by two respected journals: Middle East Quarterly (already published) and Perspectives on Terrorism (soon to be published).
Republican co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker, defended Secretary Rice on some points, saying she did just go to the Middle East and is working to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, another recommendation by the Iraq Study Group.
Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Andrew Bacevich of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies collaborated in a separate study of the role the U.S. can play in supporting a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement sponsored by the Washington Institute.
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The study was devised and conducted by UK scientists from the universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Teeside, East London and Westminster.
"There is no real sustainable management of forests" in East Africa, said Frans Bongers, a Dutch ecologist at Wageningen University and one of the authors of the study.
An A-level student, he had planned to study architecture at university, but was killed in a racist attack at a bus stop in south east London in April 1993.
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