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...better times, Christos Kortzidis never skips a meal. Yet, for most of this month, the mild-mannered mayor of Hellenikon, a seaside suburb south of Athens, has sat squat in a rusting folding chair in his office, surviving on water and fruit juice. "Starvation," he says, "was my last resort in order to pressure authorities to save the [Greek] beaches from further exploitation." Elected on an independent ticket last October, Kortizidis has lobbied for years against the privatization of Athens' prime beachfront, urging the centre-right government to take on the nightclub owners and entrepreneurs whose leisure venues along...
...commercialization of beach access is hardly unique to Greece - commercial operators are encroaching on beaches all around the Mediterranean. On the Tuscan and Ligurian coasts, for example, sun worshipers can be charged upwards of $25 a day for a chair and patch of sun, sunblock not included. And Mayor Kortzidis is not alone in fighting back: In recent weeks, Italian protesters have been walking directly through concession areas without paying to get to the beach, a 16-foot strip of which, under Italian law, must be open to all. In Greece, similar legislation also calls for 160 feet of open...
...fast, I know that. Faster than this chair was made to go.' BEN CARPENTER, 22, of Alamo, Michigan, who in a bizarre collision was pushed down a highway at speeds of up to 80 km/h after his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a large truck...
...look at tumors for changes at the DNA, RNA and protein levels," says Dr. Gordon Mills, chair of systems biology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "It certainly gives us a way of looking at what is happening inside a tumor, and that's very exciting...
Shahram Khoshbin, an associate professor of neurology at the Medical School, has been affiliated with Currier for over 30 years as a resident tutor and chair of its pre-medical advisory committee. His wife, Laura, is a senior attorney in the law office for the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital, and has served as chair of Currier House's pre-law advisory committee. Together, they teach a popular House seminar, Currier 79, "Medicine, Law, and Ethics: An Introduction...