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By the easterly folk might have been over it, but weren't rid of them for a few more decades.

Read 'The White Man's Burden' by Bill Easterly about how he thinks aid has all failed.

Florida is because there's no other safe place in the US to launch a big rocket on an easterly trajectory* than Florida.

Wind typically blows easterly, so the long stretch along I-80 allows for headwind to become tailwind at turnaround.

It would be wise to consult the works of William Easterly [1] e.g.

I've seen Blackpool and Lowestoft (the sad little marker of the UK's easterly point, right next to a gas terminal).

The rotation of the earth gives a boost to easterly launches.

Guildenstern: In the morning, the sun would be easterly.

It doesn't help that the area I'm in is closer to the 49th parallel than the 45th and also has easterly mountains; thus making natural sunrise artificially later.

With a major storm heading north-easterly across the UK, the planning should have reasonably foreseen that an airport 56 miles east may also be unavailable, and should've further diverted prior to that point.

And of course, not forgetting repair permissions, a quick shake of the blessed ju-ju stick in an easterly direction, and the feeding of at least 2 manna cookies to the Jobs voodoo doll.

In fact we went from living in a small region of Africa to spanning from the Arctic to Antarctic and from the most westerly point to the most easterly point on the map.

Good source material would be William Easterly's "The White Man's Burden".

"And it looks like we're going to have a very blustery afternoon making for a tough easterly traffic situation and a high of 97 cuils"

Easterly's book is about aid mostly from western governments to developing country governments to encourage growth.

Duflo holds up two books as the prime examples of this fallacy: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs, and White Man's Burden by Will Easterly.

There are numerous studies that show the education spending is largely useless or rather suboptimal relative to other interventions in developing countries (see William Easterly's books - he was an economist with the World Bank).