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...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 Niņo, ripped through the Indian Ocean like a forest fire. In some areas, coral mortality approached 70%. The reefs are recovering, says Abdul Azeez Abdul Hakeem, director of conservation for the Banyan Tree resort, but no one knows what will happen to them as the world's oceans continue...
...Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they have been buzzing northward at a rate of more than 200 miles a year. They have killed thousands of animals and some 150 people during their migration. They entered Honduras about half a year ago and were spotted in El Salvador in June. At this rate the bees could reach the U.S. border as early as 1988. Some scientists have stirred controversy by recommending a 20-mile-wide "bee-free" zone in Mexico to prevent the swarms from descending...
...Sidney Blum, El Paso, Texas...
...behind. My parents will leave us not an inheritance of wealth but one much more valuable, and that is the citizenship we hold in America, a land that makes it possible to obtain an education and succeed in a world where many are not as fortunate. Steve Ramirez El Paso...
...declined for fear of killing civilians and alarming U.S. allies in Latin America. According to one well-placed U.S. official, the bombing option "never got that close." Instead, the Administration "put Nicaragua on notice" that it would be held responsible for any future attacks on Americans in Honduras or El Salvador. HEALTH Patients Clog the Hotlines...