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...marauding waves, and for millenniums the islands' reefs have provided it. The value of that protection became clear in 1987 after Malé expanded out to the edge of its reef, burying it beneath a thick layer of coral sand and gravel. In April of that year, an armada of giant waves--stirred up, some think, by a distant cyclone in the Indian Ocean--attacked the city, gouging out big chunks of landfill and nearly washing away the car in which Gayoom was riding. A short time later, he gave the first of a series of famous speeches that invoked...
...century scientist; in Philadelphia. After being persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he could do better than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. He developed 8 of the 14 vaccines currently recommended for children, including shots for measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, chickenpox and meningitis...
...mild version for beginners and - for aficionados - a sharper, stronger, crumbly blue-veined variety called Kaha Blue. They also make two flavored feta cheeses?basil and pesto, and garlic and cumin?both of which make food seasonings. Recipes are available at puhoicheese.co.nz. FONTERRA Okay, this may be a multinational giant, but at least it's collectively owned - by no less than 13,000 New Zealand farmers - and produces some distinctively Kiwi cheeses. Try the taupo (produced with extra-creaminess to satisfy the Japanese market); the egmont (somewhere between Gouda and Cheddar, semi-hard and rindless, with a smooth body...
...other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
...know you're really famous when you forget a world leader is coming to lunch. In a new memoir, Bono, the singer recounts how one Sunday morning his wife answered the door at their Dublin home to find Mikhail Gorbachev "standing with a giant-- I mean giant--teddy bear" for Bono's son. "It was a loose arrangement I'd completely forgotten." It seems saving the world while remaining a rock god can be distracting...