with a chunk called East Pakistan that lay in Bengal in the west. The decision was fateful: It stranded hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Muslims in the “wrong” new nation and separated ...

This region's unique combination of socio-economic, political ... and parts of the West African coast. The increase in piracy, particularly in the early 2000s, led to a higher demand for ...

When we first traveled to China, in the early 1990s, it was very different from what we see today. Even in Beijing many people wore Mao suits and cycled everywhere; only senior Chinese Communist ...

Storm development can depend on the status of the West African Monsoon. That's what sends clusters of thunderstorms to the Atlantic, which can then become a tropical system. What can limit that ...

She and a college friend threw a dart on a map of the West, and it landed on Missoula. She got a job as an animal caretaker at the shelter and planned to work for a year and then go to graduate ...