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This is terrifying news for the 300,000 or so souls who live in the Maldives, but it could also spell disaster for people living on or near the sea everywhere--in Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York City, the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges delta in Bangladesh or the Mississippi delta on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In all, perhaps 3 billion people, half the world's population, live within a hundred miles of the sea. And at least 100 million of them occupy low-lying deltas that, like the Maldives, rise not much more than...
...home behind him and a handsome trophy before him: a tentative Egyptian commitment for a summit meeting later this spring between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. That diplomatic breakthrough could signal the end of three years of "cold peace" between the two countries. Egypt opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, and following the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut three months later, recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv. Now, with the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in its final weeks, the Egyptians were ready for an improvement...
...system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector for one of the bodies, which he has described as the Australian equivalent of the pharaonic mummies from Egypt's Valley of the Kings...
...ever to visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many saints of the church--more saints, in fact, than all his predecessors combined. Master of a dozen languages, he was the first modern Pope to visit Egypt, Spain, Canada, Cuba, Ireland or Brazil, the equivalent of circling the globe 31 times. To half the world's people, he was the only Pope they have ever known, or mourned. Thus the prayers came not just from the Catholic faithful but also from Muslims in France and Jews...
...that the bureaucratic pieces have fallen her way, what does Rice plan to do with them? She has led the push in the Administration for reform in the Middle East, canceling a trip to Egypt after Cairo jailed a leading political activist (the next day, Hosni Mubarak stunned the Egyptian public with a call for multiparty presidential elections). Rice executed a course correction on Lebanon, cooling U.S. denunciations of the militant group Hizballah, aware that the organization will almost certainly increase its clout in the May elections. And Rice quietly prevailed two weeks ago, when the U.S. backed European efforts...