I live in the Eastern Seaboard of North America when I'm not traveling.

Well it seems to me that we're now seeing a fundamental shift of power, broadly speaking, away from nations gathered around the Atlantic seaboard to the nations gathered around the Pacific rim.

Access to Pitcairn is possible only by sea, usually by container vessels plying between New Zealand and the United Kingdom or from the eastern seaboard of the United States or the Caribbean, via the Panama Canal.

NEW YORK The hurricane on America s eastern seaboard last week (which I experienced in lower Manhattan) adds to a growing collection of extreme weather events from which lessons should be drawn. Climate experts have long argued that the frequency and magnitude of such events are increasing, and evidence of this should certainly influence precautionary steps and cause us to review such measures regularly.