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Predictably, things have gotten worse since then. Robert Diaz, an ecologist at the College of William and Mary in Virginia who helped UNEP with its numbers, reports in the current issue of the journal Science that today there are more than 400 known dead zones along coastlines around the world, covering roughly 95,000 sq. mi. of seabed. Some of the dead zones that Diaz and his Swedish co-author identify in their review have been around for some time, but have only recently been studied. Many others appear to be new. About 8% of them, mainly those...
...chair. "You were right," he said emphatically, and he recounted what for him was a particularly humiliating moment in the national memory of many Russians: when then President Yeltsin had gone to Berlin to participate in a ceremony with his German counterpart, Helmut Kohl. At a lunch, Yeltsin had gotten infamously drunk, and when he went outside after the meal was over, he cheerfully began conducting a German military band on hand for the occasion...
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...later, I asked my friend who had studied here in the spring what she thought. She suggested it was unnatural for people who share a native language to speak to each other in a different one. Her Spanish had gotten better anyway—but she was here for five months, while we’re here for just five weeks...
...imagine how many people would be interested in seeing it, to be perfectly honest. There is a real subculture of people who like it, but if it was really that popular, it wouldn't have gotten canceled in the first place. It would probably suck, I imagine...