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...sheer-sided limestone pinnacles. Then, as the earth warmed and the ice melted, the rising ocean overtopped these pinnacles, providing new surfaces for the corals to colonize. Around 5,000 years ago, after the corals brought the reefs close enough to the sea's surface, coral sand and gravel began to accumulate in shallow depressions, and the present-day islands formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Waters Are Rising | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...people who live on such islands want protection from 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Waters Are Rising | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...their supporters in militant groups on his side if the current relative calm is ever to become a more permanent peace. "If Abbas leaves us in jail," Mardawi says, "there'll be no cease-fire anymore." Behind the 10-m walls of Shikma, bulky mastiffs drag guards across the gravel yard. In one cell in Block 8, 10 inmates sit back on their bunks in brown overalls, staring silently at a wall-mounted television, smoking aromatic cheroots and cheap Israeli cigarettes. The 8-m-by-11-m room is festooned with bath towels and tracksuits. Each man owns a transistor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time to Kill, And a Time to Heal | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

Local politicians are mobilizing too. The TTC legislation, passed after eight hours of debate, in June 2003, drew little attention until Republican activist David Stall, a former city manager of Columbus, in East Texas, discovered a notice for hearings buried in the ads for gravel and road-material bids. He was "horrified" to discover that the corridor, as a limited-access turnpike, would steal business his town gets from travelers. Today public officials from six counties along the corridor route have joined his grass-roots group, CorridorWatch, to oppose the TTC. "There is no legislative oversight, no elected officials overseeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Wave in Superhighways, or A Big, Fat Texas Boondoggle? | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...band has only recently begun their current forward-moving trajectory. Warren almost quit before the band had really gotten started, but was called back to the music through her obsession with a single album: Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. “Becky got really psyched about it and got us all really psyched about it,” Eggers says, “though Altay was really skeptical at the start...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau and Nathaniel Naddaff-hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Great Unknowns Reintroduced | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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