Security expert John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, thinks power in the Arctic may lie with whoever has the best physical access to this forbidding region.
We've already seen 220 miles worth of levees and flood walls repaired, and we are working to strengthen the wetlands and barrier islands that are the first line of defense for the Gulf Coast. (Applause.) This isn't just critical to this region's physical protection, it's critical to our environment, it's critical to our economy.
Our data consistently shows Web site response times vary from region to region based on the physical location of a cloud server machine.
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There were more reports overnight of strong demand for physical gold coming out of the Asian region, and especially India.
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There were more reports Wednesday of strong demand for physical gold coming out of the Asian region, and especially India.
High rates of smoking, obesity and a lack of physical exercise are also particular problems in the region.
Meanwhile, they say physical demand from the key gold-buying region of Asia is likely to pick up further, particularly considering the price drop came ahead of a key holiday period in Asia.
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In fact in an important oversight we have tended to think of this system as distinctly software related whereas self-organising ecosystems have typified many physical product communities in areas like the Veneto region of Italy for decades.
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Activity was also elevated in the insula, a region that monitors one's emotional and physical state (it's also involved in disgust, shame and other strong negative emotions).
Gold prices also felt some selling pressure Tuesday from the fact Asia is celebrating the lunar new year this week, which has curtailed physical demand for the precious yellow metal coming out of that region.
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"Climate change in polar regions is expected to be among the greatest of any region on the Earth, and it will cause major physical, ecological, sociological and economic impacts, " Dr Toepfer said.
If it does, the Iraqis certainly have the human and physical resources to transform their nation into a model of prosperity, civilization and opportunity in a region of the world that has known too little of these things of late.
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