Nigerians from elsewhere point out that the oil industry was originally devloped with money earned from groundnuts from the north, coal from the east, tin from the middle belt and cocoa from the west.
But its introduction has contributed to outbreaks of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, especially evangelicals, in the middle belt of the country where the two communities rub up against each other, in cities like Kaduna and Jos.
The island sits in the middle of the hurricane belt, and has around a 25% chance of enduring a big volcanic eruption within 25 years.
No Afghan government has yet accepted the border drawn by Britain in 1893 that runs through the middle of the Pashtun tribal belt.
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"This decision is designed to give players an opportunity to spend time in the middle and get overs under their belt, " said England chief Hugh Morris.
He only gets to be a real character when the actor drops the cultural signifiers and plays what Friedman really is behind the Borscht Belt speech: a middle-aged man looking for love, and a home.
We have to address the fact that if we are asking for some belt tightening and sacrifice from average Americans, from the middle class, we have to also insist that the most fortunate among us also contribute to this.
Middle Tennessee lost in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament after winning the regular season title, which in previous years might have been enough to knock them out of the NCAAs.
So you can see how all the Washington chest thumpers on behalf of middle class families might want to start their ill-advised belt-tightening right here, by targeting the one stimulus measure most directly tied to jobs.
And as Joe Calzaghe's 'cut man' for 12 years, he patched-up the southpaw throughout his undefeated multiple-belt reign as super middle-weight world champion.
Down the suasion chain there is much of the rest of North Africa and Middle East (part of the same street drama as in Egypt), Nigeria (West African oil belt), NATO including ever-trickier Turkey, Colombia and Panama (drug war) and an Asian-Pacific scene full of its own goblins.
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