Word: coral
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...headed out into the warm waters of the South Pacific, tanks of air strapped to their backs and syringes at the ready. Their mission, one lethal injection at a time, was to put a stop to an outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish, a voracious predator of fragile tropical coral reefs. Those early efforts - along with a big printing of "Save the Barrier Reef" bumper stickers - helped establish what has since been considered one of the world's best-protected coral reefs...
...stories of Neptune and his queen, Cleita, the Van Cleef creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to depict ocean spray and rare aqua colored tourmaline's to evoke the ocean depths. One stunning pendant is composed of onyx and set with diamonds and white gold coral-shaped branches. Other pieces include sea nymph pins encrusted with sapphires and a Poseiden-like creature made of yellow gold and fashioned into a pin set with yellow and white diamonds and a 7 carat spinel...
...organization, we found so many eager people that we managed to pull off 1,400 rallies in all 50 states on that Saturday in April. And they were just as cool as that long-ago march through Harvard Square: We had scuba divers holding underwater demonstrations off the coral reefs of Key West and skiers descending in formation down the dwindling glaciers of the Rockies; we had crowds of people in blue thronging lower Manhattan to form a “sea of people” to show where the new tideline would someday fall; we even had a crane...
...same goes for the scuba diving. The reefs off the nearby isle of Misali, a conservation area that protects nesting turtles, reveal some of the most spectacular marine life in the world, with everything from surgeonfish to fairy basslets teeming amid mountains of unspoiled coral. If you rise early and take a short boat ride around Pemba, you might glimpse breaching spinner dolphins. Dry land's no less rewarding. Whether sipping a Pemba punder, a local vodka cocktail, at the side of the pool (exorcised for just two goats and a skinny cow) or savoring sunset cocktails at the jetty...
...Coral R. Martin ’10 gave a particularly lovely performance as the highlight of a complex group choreography that felt beautifully nostalgic...