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...capable of growing upward in response to higher sea levels. But when ocean temperatures rise too high, coral polyps become susceptible to a disease known as bleaching, so-called because it involves loss of the symbiotic algae that not only provide the polyps with essential nutrition but also color their tissues. Like a fever, bleaching is not necessarily fatal, but can be if ocean temperatures stay too high for too long. That's what happened seven years ago, when a prolonged heightening of sea-surface temperatures, triggered by the 1997-1998 El Niño, ripped through the Indian Ocean like...
...that's not (or not only) a joke. Coulter actually favors discrimination based on skin color in airports. She argues that airports should establish a separate line for men and boys whose complexion suggests they could be from the Middle East; they would be screened more thoroughly than other passengers...
...Didn't we throw out discrimination based on skin color a long time...
...bargain prices; in South Africa, the new élite is making deals with private companies who are obviously profit motivated. "I find it very strange that people who profess to believe in capitalism criticize people who embrace it," Macozoma says. His work with the A.N.C. helped transform the color of South Africa's government, he says, and now he's doing the same for its boardrooms. "You need the same kind of person who was the bedrock of the A.N.C. to be the bedrock of a society that is based on a middle class. There is no way I would...
...arrangement would be a bit of a personal sacrifice, forcing me to miss the big moment in the piazza. But as the permanent Rome correspondent, I know my way around the press office and the local bookstores better than my colleagues from out of town, who could collect the color and reaction from the crowd. Still, even after seven years in Rome, I continue to forget how things really work here. The bookstores were closing down just as I arrived. The owners also wanted to be in the piazza for Habemus Papam! And so thanks to them, I would...