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Every Mediterranean seaside destination has its own particular appeal: the soft sands of Mykonos, cliffside views in Portofino, non-stop nightlife in St. Tropez. The tiny island of Lampedusa, the southernmost dot on Italy's map, is prized above all for the crystal clarity of its turquoise waters. But this same stretch of Mediterranean is rapidly acquiring a much darker notoriety. Once again this summer, as both Italian and foreign sun-lovers soak up their beach holidays, boatloads of would-be immigrants from North Africa have been aiming for Lampedusa's coastline in a desperate attempt to reach European shores...
...military and aviation collection, his favorite is a P-39 Airacobra. Back in April 1942, Beck says, it landed in New Guinea with four other brand-new P-39s, all emblazoned with the U.S. Army Air Force insignia, a blue circle containing a white star with a red dot at the center. The Australians on the ground were aghast: Japanese aircraft were marked with a red dot. An Australian officer immediately ordered all of the dots painted over. (Soon after, the red dot was removed from standard U.S. markings...
...Though they have been studied for years, the engrav-ings of the Dampier Rock Art Precinct remain a vast mystery. No one is sure what they-or the deliberately assembled piles of rocks that dot the area-signify. Aboriginal elders claim that only people from Burrup country can understand the messages their ancestors etched into the stones, and that those messages must remain secret...
...presidential lines, scientists say, are wasting money as well as time. Larry Goldstein's lab at the University of California at San Diego is a life-size game of connect the dots. Each machine, cell dish, chemical and pretty much every major tool bears a colored dot, signaling to lab workers whether they can use the item for experiments that the government won't pay for. Goldstein's team is working on a cancer experiment that relies on a $200,000 piece of equipment. They can use either an approved cell line that will yield a less reliable result...
...Most of them are civilians fleeing the villages that dot the hills southeast of here, heading north for the relative safety of the port town of Tyre, or further up the coast beyond the Litani river. But some vehicles head the other way - straight into the killing zone that south Lebanon has become since Israel's onslaught against Lebanese Hizballah guerrillas began 13 days ago. These are the ambulances of the Lebanese Red Cross, driven by fearless young men and women volunteers who risk their lives each day to ferry casualties from villages cut off by shelling and bomb cratered...