The recent floods in the heartland of Europe, in China and, of course, in this very country, might be seen as clear warnings.

El Kadi Ihsane, In the heartland of the GSPC , Algeria Interface, 16 December 2002 (available at http www.algeria interface.com new article.php?article_id 657 lng e).

Representatives of an economically dynamic and socially conservative heartland are moving Turkey toward reform. The republican project of modernization will continue, with a wider mobilization of society.

New construction has been observed at 93 of the 130 settlements in the West Bank, in settlements close to Jerusalem, as well as isolated posts in the West Bank heartland.

The America Heartland Symposium enabled indigenous leaders to discuss their development issues and objectives, exploring what they have in common and the options for initiating dialogue with other sectors of society.

And with this one campaign as our umbrella, my organization, DATA, and other groups, have been tapping into the energy and the enthusiasm that's out there from Hollywood into the heartland of America.

The initiative includes the construction of a privately funded and operated toll road to Maputo from the South African industrial heartland around Johannesburg, under the build operate transfer method, and the promotion of industrial investment in the corridor area.

After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak s 30 year old regime in Egypt, the heartland of the Middle East, amazement has turned into certainty. The Middle East has awakened and begun to enter the globalized world of the twenty first century.

The surge also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. The US has achieved relative successes in the province through alliances with Sunni tribes.

There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two acre dry wheat farms and a single goat. There are other families throughout the world that could buy that wheat farm with one day s wages.

The blogger who dismissed The Washington Post s corrections of Santorum s fictional portrayal of the Netherlands expressed himself like a perfect post modernist. The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.

Kadyrov was able to create a strong force that could fight the guerrillas, basically on its own. Kadyrov s efforts can also be credited with ending major terrorist attacks in Russia s heartland, such as those that occurred in Moscow in 2002 and in Beslan in 2004.

American reactions to the Abu Ghraib torture scenes, followed by the beheading of the American hostage Nicholas Berg, show clearly the route to barbarism in a supposedly civilized country. In May 2004, The New York Times polled readers in a city in the US heartland, Oswego, Illinois.

A typical Western style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland. While home prices are crashing from Madrid to Dublin and Miami to Los Angeles, African prices remain near or at record high levels.

In a recent article in the British scientific journal The Lancet , Oliver Sabot and I proposed such a strategy. The approach is simple a redoubled effort to reduce infections and deaths rapidly in the malaria heartland (i.e., equatorial Africa and a handful of other areas around the world) should be accompanied by a campaign to roll back the disease from its current margins.

Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia s other powers and the US. Their focus on inhibiting India seems particularly misguided, given that China s core interests (Tibet, Taiwan, and the heartland of the Chinese mainland) are far beyond the reach of most of India s military capabilities.

It is mostly Jewish, though a young Arab professional class is now coming out of the universities and making its way with difficulties into the heartland of civil society. And, lest we forget, Middle Israel is earning the money and paying the taxes that support a wide assortment of traditionalists, fundamentalists, chauvinists, and other extremists Jewish and Muslim from Gaza to Jerusalem to the West Bank.

Speaking from the heartland of the troubled South, I can attest to the fact that the need for austerity has been the leitmotif of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy s government, a course that gained explicit popular support in the recent elections. Reforming Spains s cajas (savings banks), labor market, welfare provisions, and how its autonomous regions function top the national agenda (though unfortunately only at the insistence of the European Commission and Germany).