Symmetry in particular has been studied extensively, not only in the Western World but also in hunter-gatherer cultures removed from mainstream media.
Type 2 diabetes, which is also called adult onset diabetes, is a growing problem in the Western world and is most common in the overweight and the obese.
Formed on a working-class base, Labor claims to be the first party of its kind in the Western world to have won power: in Queensland in 1899 (briefly), then as a national government five years later.
Heart disease is the biggest killer in the Western world, claiming 900, 000 lives in America alone.
Nearly half a million Americans die from smoking--related illnesses each year, the biggest reversible mortality statistic in the Western world, yet 46 million adults and 3.2 million teenagers in the U.S. continue to puff away.
"Islamic bankers should do some missionary work in the Western world to promote the concept of Shariah banking, for which many in the West are more than ready now, " Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the World Islamic Economic Forum last month in Jakarta.
The last literate person in the Western World has finally read The Da Vinci Code.
In the Western world, too little eye contact is interpreted as being impolite, insincere, or even dishonest.
Although people may be used to seeing them, not many in the Western world actually scan them.
As that suggests, the economy is now firmly anchored in the western world, as it was before 1938.
Today such view is heretical and actually undermines the role of women in the Church, particularly in the Western World.
The move is a risky one, analysts say, because Chinese consumers are so different from those in the Western world.
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Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman.
The move to self-renting cars, a la Zipcar, laid waste to several walls of inconvenience for consumers in the western world.
It would also make Israel even more unpopular internationally since Fatah is the toast of every town in the Western world.
Gen Petraeus certainly had more experience of combating terrorism in its different guises than any other military or civilian figure in the Western world.
We are the most prolific users of hospitals in the Western world.
If both of these laws passed tomorrow, Israel's Supreme Court would still be more powerful than any other Supreme Court in the Western world.
Last month, the European Union approved Glybera for treatment of a rare genetic disease, making it the first gene-therapy medicine approved in the Western world.
Big U.S. corporations pay some of the highest tax rates in the Western world, yet they are still some of the most profitable companies on earth.
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In severing sex from procreation, humankind set into motion forces that have by now shaped and reshaped almost every aspect of life in the Western world.
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Since Beinisch's professional godfather, retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, enacted his "judicial revolution" in the 1990s, Israel's judicial system has been without parallel in the Western world.
Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California, and is acknowledged as one of the master teachers of Eastern philosophy in the Western world.
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Through my own experience as an Asian living in a western world, I came to truly understand what poor new immigrants face when confronted by a completely different culture and language.
These medicines can cut the number of heart attacks by a third for patients who take them, but that still leaves cardiovascular disease as the leading killer in the western world.
They had a divided Labour Party, "one of the most unpopular prime ministers in living memory", and one of the most "racked" economies in the Western world, said the ConservativeHome editor.
Their faith provides them with a means of judging reality that is independent of the largely post-religious intellectual commissariat that runs the media and the cultural elite in the Western world.
That means data from 4, 000 years of preserved corpses shows that serious cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of people in the Western world, has been with us since before we started planting crops.
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Hearing them talk of tax cuts in a country whose tax take is among the lowest in the Western world likewise has not gone down well under the dour skies of north Europe.
For example, almost every country in the Western world is willing to give for AIDS. But because the financing is skewed toward treatment, for every one person on anti-retroviral drugs, six new infections occur.
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