Word: islands
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...Barrett and York, an IOP fellow who was the Democratic nominee for governor of Rhode Island in 1994 and 1998, shared their experiences dealing with politics in their respective states...
...professional association, and it's important to take advantage of any that meet your needs. This is what happened to Mindy Ferrentino, 47, who handles marketing and communications for the law offices of Harriette M. Steinberg P.C. in Westbury, N.Y. Three years ago, she joined the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women, a networking group, and eventually became a board member and vice president. Another board member introduced Ferrentino to her current boss, and she moved into her office a year...
...again the topic of climate change, which is caused primarily by the increase in the content of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An important effect of global warming is the rise of global sea levels, which is a prospect that severely threatens many small island nations and peninsulas. Bangladesh is a country whose coastline would significantly regress inland with a sea level rise of only a few centimeters, thereby decimating coastal communities...
...TRAVEL 17 Holyoke St. 495-9649. M-F 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sa 1 to 5 p.m. SPECIALS INCLUDE: Cancun (departing March 27): $499 and up; depending on the number of people traveling Nassau, Bahamas (departing March 27): $459 and up Paradise Island, Bahamas (departing March...
...Wednesday, it must be Cuba... The communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east...