While hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in some places, the general feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed.

尽管搭便车在某些地方仍然很盛行，但在西方大部分地区，人们普遍认为搭便车是注定要失败的。

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Throughout much of the West, particularly the United States, Facebook holds sway as the default social network, gathering all demographics.

多数西方国家，尤其是美国，FACEBOOK几乎被所有人默认为一个重要的社交网络。

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Following Mr Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza, Mr Olmert hoped to follow his example by uprooting Israeli settlements from much of the West Bank.

紧随着沙龙在加沙地带的撤军，奥莫特希望能照他的样子来清除约旦河西岸的以色列定居点。

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But the Mahmouds, like many other Palestinian families in the West Bank do not have access to much of the water in the ground beneath them.

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There's money in Russia that can be provided to fund some of this, but how much money from the West is there in supporting this kind of initiative?

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The federal government is unpopular in Idaho, as it is in much of the West.

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But tinder-dry conditions across much of the West have states bracing for a potentially explosive August and September.

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If the Palestinians refuse, he says, Israel should move towards unilateral withdrawal, first from the Gaza strip, then from much of the West Bank.

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