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It stretched from eastern Washington to western Montana, and it burned, in a few days, three million acres, devoured several towns, and it killed 87 people.

This was Southland, a small shanty community on the western side of Nairobi, Kenya.

That philosophy came from being raised on our family's cattle ranch in a small town in the western desert of Utah.

But I remember on the flight back on my last trip, I remember breaking down in tears and thinking to myself, if any kid in the West, in the western world, went through a day of what any of those kids have gone through, they will be in therapy for the rest of their natural lives.

So the average Western first-grader spends as much as 50 percent of their play time taking part in what’s called "construction play."

We are what happens to a western democracy when a hundred years of electoral laws are disrupted by technology.

We're in Pole Canyon, looking west up the western escarpment of Mount Washington, which is 11,600 feet on top.

Another possible approach is right up the western front of the mountain.

First ascent of the western face to Mount Washington, and a solo ascent at that.

These are sequences from a play called "The Lehman Trilogy," which traces the origins of Western capitalism in three hours, with three actors and a piano.

It is not what you hear, you know, from the Western press.

In the 1864 novella "Notes from Underground," he expounded on his belief that utopian Western philosophies could never satisfy the contradictory yearnings of the human soul.

Because in the mid-1950s, when I was a tiny child, they had the audacity to launch a very primitive little satellite called Sputnik, which sent the Western world into a hysterical tailspin.

For a long time it was not believed when the first Western travelers, like Sir Francis Drake, went to Thailand and came back with tales of this unbelievable spectacle.

When I was growing up in Western Michigan in the 1980s, there weren't many Asian American writers interested in social change.

The only honest answer to this question is that it was Western civilization that did so.

But over time, it shared the gifts of Western wisdom with the rest of the world.

Let me add here that I have personally benefited from the sharing of Western wisdom.

But the greatest gift I got was that of Western education.

Now since I've personally traveled this journey from third world poverty to a comfortable middle-class existence, I can speak with great conviction about the impact of Western wisdom and the sharing of Western wisdom with the world.

Now having transformed the world through the sharing of Western wisdom with the rest of the world, the logical and rational response of the West should have been to say, "Hey, we have to adjust and adapt to this new world."

Western workers lost their jobs, they saw their incomes stagnate, clearly people had to think about new competitive policies, workers needed retraining, workers needed new skills.

And using the Western art of reasoning, I would recommend that the West adopt a new "three-m" strategy: minimalist, multilateral and Machiavellian.

Now even though Western domination has ended, the West continues to intervene and interfere in the affairs of many other societies.

It's also draining the resources and spirits of Western societies.

As a longtime friend of the West, I'm acutely aware of how pessimistic Western societies have become.

Even though most indications for treatments in the world are standardized, there is a lot of unnecessary variation of treatment decisions, especially in the Western world.

Particularly in rich Western democracies, they are then less likely to believe that science.

References to Western society and Japanese customs tumble over each other, from literature and fashion to food and ghost stories.

And every idea I had just kept failing, or it was just too high-risk, because let's be honest, most of Yemen is just too dangerous for a Western team.

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