This isn't a story of the West losing out to China, because both will continue to profit in Africa.
The story of the American West is in part the story of advances in technology and transportation, including air conditioning and the highway system, which made it possible for people to live comfortably in more places.
In his history of the foreign scramble for China, Robert Bickers of Bristol University looks mainly at the story of west European and, to a lesser extent, American interaction with the country.
Wood was, arguably, at the peak of her powers: 1961 also saw the release of hit musical West Side Story - with Wood in the leading female role of Maria.
It was the original concept for West Side Story, one of the most successful musical theater productions ever and an Academy Award-winning 1961 motion picture.
The story of how Ba came to West Ham from German club Hoffenheim, and how he was able to leave at the end of his first season in London because of a clause added to his contract at the last moment, is amazing.
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Hollywood producers used to jump at the opportunity to turn a successful musical into the next blockbuster West Side Story and The Sound of Music were winning Tonys long before they won Academy Awards.
"It's part of this overall story that the Chinese want to know what the West thinks of them, " said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the computer-security company Mandiant Corp.
You know we've had more than a quarter of a million people coming to The Old Vic this year in just our first three productions, and now we hold for The Philadelphia Story - the second highest advance ticket sales in the history of the West End for straight plays.
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Jesse Baker produced the story of our visit to West Virginia, and Rob Byers was our sound engineer.
The Costco phenomenon was already in full swing in parts of the country, especially the West Coast, when my Forbes cover story appeared in summer 1997.
It is located on a campus of three ten-story buildings in the northeastern part of Hangzhou, about a ten-minute taxi drive from West Lake.
We had always been fond of an unusual 10-story building on the Upper West Side.
Jerome Robbins enrolled in night school, in the midst of creating West Side Story, simply so that he could have better conversations with composer Leonard Bernstein in order to make their project better.
But while the British real ale movement of the same era harked back to a bygone age, American brewers of the same era were associated from its outset with the west coast counterculture, according to Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer.
The radicalization of young Muslims in the West, in particular children of the well-off, is by now a familiar story.
From its inception, the World Bank, which occupies an imposing thirteen-story building off Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks west of the White House, has represented a peculiar blend of idealism and Realpolitik.
Some highlights include an audio slideshow from NPR's Howard Berkes with stunning landscape images taken by an aerial photographer and an in-depth 50th anniversary look at the development and creation of West Side Story.
"Wicked, " based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel, tells the story of two young witches-to-be, one a green brooder who will be the Wicked Witch of the West and the other blond and bubbly, who will be Glinda the Good Witch.
Hollywood director and producer Robert Wise--who died last week in Los Angeles at age 91--is best remembered for two films, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music, " that garnered him four Oscars.
Just after the two halves of the city were reunited, a West German magazine had a cover story with a picture of an East German housewife.
In Los Angeles, developers of Beverly West, a 22-story condominium with 35 residences, allotted some of the homes' premium space for closets, giving them glass walls with views of the city's skyline and green space surrounding the building.
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While Painter is a gifted story teller, the best one he told me is how he got elected president of his class at West Point.
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Though the novel has a variety of characters, most of the story centers on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games representatives from District 12 (presumably West Virginia), and their efforts to emerge from the games alive.
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The speculative story was that emerging market economies are in a long-run phase of rapid catch-up with the West unencumbered by all the toxic waste of the bubble and bust of the previous decade which now mean the advanced economies will be ailing for a long time to come.
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With a song like Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" (from West Side Story), the melody is here, but it's unlike any version of the song I've heard recorded.
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