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...lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks in the Med - and traditional fishing communities. Hundreds of thousands of people around the Mediterranean...
...store. Even clothing has been inching up after months of deep discounting. "I wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In addition to geopolitical tension, the hurricane season and its potential to disrupt refineries on the Gulf of Mexico lie ahead. And as we grudgingly get used to $3-per-gal. gasoline--it's been nearly two years since crude oil broke $50 a barrel--companies feel more comfortable passing along their own higher costs to customers...
...Lebanon's sunny shoreline is filled with vacationing families from the Gulf states. By night, the city's watering holes throb with oil-rich Arab playboys and European hipsters who have flocked to see the new Beirut. Once a by-word for civil war, Lebanon's capital was recently reborn as Middle East party central...
...Percentage of homeless vets who fought in the current conflict in Iraq or the 1991 Gulf War. About 40% fought in Vietnam...
...gulf I perceive between the athletes and myself the result of some fundamental change in intellect—in rapidly amassing vast amounts of knowledge. I am not arrogant enough to think that my brain has undergone, in just three years, a fundamental retooling. I have not ascended from pathetically low ”high school” level of intellect to the “college” one. No, I feel different from the rowers simply because I have been around for a bit longer and, in that brief period of time, have packed more than my share...