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This is not to say the Maldives have remained the same over time. Twenty thousand years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, says Abdulla Naseer, director of the Marine Research Center in Malé, the Maldives were not the low-lying coral islands we see today. Due to frigid ocean temperatures and vast amounts of water locked up as ice, sea levels were some 400 ft. lower then, and the reef crests loomed above the sea's surface as sheer-sided limestone pinnacles. Then, as the earth warmed and the ice melted, the rising ocean overtopped these pinnacles...
...They should get over their sensitivities. By staying away, tourists are only adding to the woes of those hit on Dec. 26. "The best help that foreigners can give to the Maldives is to come and visit us," says Abdulla Mausoom, director of the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board. "They should understand that tourism is very important to our economy." Although the death toll in the Maldives was relatively low?82 people, including three British tourists?the damage was severe. Of the 200 inhabited islands in the Maldives, 13 had to be evacuated completely; many local homes and fishing boats were...
...Abdulla Alsaboosi, a diplomat at the UAE embassy, said the request—which he said was communicated to Harvard “lately,†although he did not know exactly when—was made “because the university took too long to reach a decision...
...Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They flew into Hong Kong but apparently lacked the cash and contacts required to pass border controls.) Two other accused men--Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, and Habis Abdulla al Saoub, 36, a Jordanian citizen--remain at large. Battle's former wife, October Martinique Lewis, 25, has been charged with wiring money to support the endeavor. So far, Ford has pleaded not guilty...
...TIME Daily's most recent poll was another hot-button issue: "A Kurdish Homeland? Should the United Nations support the creation of a Kurdish state?" Kurdish terrorist/guerrilla leader (depending on your point of view) Abdulla Ocalan had just been nabbed by the Turkish authorities, Kurds across Europe were storming embassies and setting themselves on fire, and the Turkish online community evidently figured the best defense was a good offense. TIME Daily writers were awash in form-letter hate mail with subject lines like "I am protesting you" and "demand for your apologize" -- and the poll was under assault...