Do you say east or west out of the road, over?

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That's how you say East Timor in Bahasa Indonesia.

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" Instead, everything is talked about in terms of absolute cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), which means you say things like, "There's an ant on your southwest leg.

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When you cross the date line from west to east on, say, Tuesday, it suddenly becomes Monday.

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You know, we need better information and the ability to run computer models in near real-time so that we can give you better answers to say exactly whey there is warm conditions on the East Coast at North America at the moment.

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You might say it's not just economic power that has shifted from West to East in this crisis.

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Can you say the same with regard to the rest of Libya and the rest of the Middle East?

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If you want my wild guess on the next great world civilization, I say don't look East young man, nor West, but rather south to Africa.

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