Word: guadalquivir
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...Working, indeed. Located on an island in the Guadalquivir river, 10 miles (16km) inland from the Atlantic, Veta la Palma produces 1,200 tons of sea bass, bream, red mullet and shrimp each year. Yet unlike most of the world's fish farms, it does so not by interfering with nature, but by improving upon it. "Veta la Palma raises fish sustainably and promotes the conservation of birdlife at the same time," says Daniel Lee, best practices director for the U.S.-based Global Aquaculture Alliance. "I've never seen anything quite like...
...that dozens of horses pulled up and two died of exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi and Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send extremely slight boats skittering over the surface of the Guadalquivir River. In the final of the men's coxless pair, the British team of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell avenged the defeat they suffered in the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July at the hands of Australians James Tomkins and Drew Ginn. The British crew - who until that defeat...