Higher consumption may suit the West, but more investment is in Asia's longer-term interests.
Behind all this, however, lies an even tougher fact the West may soon have to face.
And while the West may be diverse in terms of lodging options, there are many gems back East.
And in May, Golden West Financial (nyse: GDW - news - people ) of Oakland, Calif.
Emil Wilbekin, managing editor of Essence.com, said West may have gone too far with his antics this time.
Adam West may also be a draw because of his current gig as a cartoon mayor on Family Guy.
And in the end only the West may benefit from the research, if Africans cannot afford the new drugs.
Det Sgt Harry May, of West Midlands Police, said the couple's relationship deteriorated and Jones started mentally and physically abusing her.
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Temperatures in the West may reach 10C (50F) later, and there are fears warmer weather in the coming days may bring flooding.
Like it or not, the West may be betting big on the survival of the house of Saud for decades to come.
But the persistent pandering to the coal sector there may be digging West Virginia in a hole from which it cannot emerge.
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But preliminary reports indicate West may have died from complications of cosmetic surgery, which was performed by Adams the day before, he said.
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The West may not like him, but the Deputy Information Minister, Miodrag Popovic, says that is no reason for the president to step down.
West may have found a friendly audience in the roughly 100-person crowd in Martin County, but he simultaneously played to the biggest grievance of his competition.
They fear that, in joining western clubs, Russia is hoping not only to get the benefits of membership but also to influence the clubs in ways the West may not like.
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England are due to play a warm-up game against Bangladesh in Barbados next Wednesday and another against South Africa the following day, before beginning the tournament proper on 3 May against hosts West Indies in Guyana.
Security expert and former CIA officer Robert Baer told the BBC's World Today programme he believed the the latest threat to the West may be linked to the US-led attacks on Haqqani insurgents - allies of the Taliban in Waziristan.
The West may be "kicking butt, " as Forbes ASAP put it last summer (click here to read that article), but the folks west of the Mississippi still have a long way to go before they catch up with their buttoned-down brethren on the East Coast.
To the contrary, aircraft may be decisive in helping the West repulse such attacks -- provided they may be introduced into the theater flexibly and supported effectively.
Mr Bush's advisers seem to be calculating that, just as steel tariffs may help him to win West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2004, so signing the farm bill may win him votes in the prairie belt.
McIlroy, who will celebrate his 16th birthday on 4 May, is the West of Ireland amateur champion.
The inquest in Cardiff head that nearby Freshwater West beach may have been sprayed with machine gun fire.
It is essential that he should be thwarted in this ambition and disabused of any idea he may have that the West would tolerate it.
Police have said they believe a large pipe bomb which was found close to a school in west Belfast may have been thrown at them overnight.
Of course, we are now seeing speculation that the Cline Shale formation in West Texas may well contain more oil than the Eagle Ford, so that distinction could be short-lived.
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It is obvious that whatever lessons we have to and may draw from the West about the grave issue of HIV-Aids, a simple superimposition of Western experience on African reality would be absurd and illogical.
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