Word: corals
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...Kingston harbor, numerous fish kills have been linked to the high bacteria count in the water. Fishermen in Cartagena, site of last week's conferences, worry about the effect of mercury and pesticide levels on shellfish and other marine life. Known for their collections of picturesque coral and nourishing sea grasses, the Caribbean's shallow coastal waters are a rich breeding ground for sea life, ranging from shrimp, mollusks and crustaceans to numerous varieties of finfish. Any major disturbance of this fragile ecosystem could have far-reaching repercussions. Unfortunately, as Rodriguez Mercado notes, there is little awareness...
...mountains in the rainy season and causing long periods of drought in summer. The torrents may be accompanied by landslides. More subtle damage comes from silting. As rivers wash debris into the clear coastal waters, the particles reduce the transparency of the sea, cut down sunlight and kill off coral reefs and valuable coastal sea grasses, on which much marine life depends...
...rally, organized by the Harvard Women's Center, was timed to coincide with similar marches at other area campuses, including Brandeis, B.U., Northeastern and Wellesley. Coral A. Owens '84, one of the Harvard organizers, explained that the marches were coordinated in response to the rape of four women at Brandeis in the past three months...
Kamal Yacoub Coral Gables...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...