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...sting can prove deadly.) The Environment Ministry is sending out boats armed with large nets to snare the jellyfish before they reach shallow water. And Spain is not the only country on the defensive: red warning flags have been hoisted on beaches in France, Sicily and along the Italian Riviera. Josep-María Gili, a marine biologist at the Institute of Ocean Science in Barcelona, attributes the surge in the jellyfish population to overfishing of its predators. But he has another explanation for why so many jellyfish are reaching the beach: global warming. "Less rain and higher temperatures have...
...Were Cervantes ever to sail his boat around the Mediterranean's 46,000-km coastline, he would hear similar tales in languages from Arabic to Italian. The 22 countries that border the Med face a battle over resources that raises a stark question: To what extent can traditional lifestyles and economic activities coexist with a global appetite for the produce of the Mediterranean region? Few events so eloquently capture the tussle between international commerce and the locals over the Mediterranean's resources as the annual summer hunt for bluefin tuna. Much of the Med's tuna is no longer caught...
...hooked by the humor, its breadth and pungency, even if I didn't always pick up on the references. Sure, I knew that Orval Faubus was Arkansas' segregationist governor, and I laughed when Lenny had him ignorantly approving of his daughter's engagement to Harry Belafonte ("Nice Italian boy, eh?"), but the allusions to 30s movies and the talent agency MCA sailed over my head. That didn't matter. I memorized some of the routines, and when he appeared on Steve Allen's Sunday night variety show, in the spring of 1959, I preserved the bit on my tape recorder...
...case, most of the ingredients of our respective cuisines (Italian and Indian) are simply not available here. So every time Franco returns from R'n'R in his native Milan, his suitcase is bursting with an assortment of cheeses, wines, cans of olive oil and dried meats. My last chore before leaving New York City is to stop by the Indian shops in the neighborhood of Murray Hill and fill my bags with spices and herbs. Luckily, Iraqi customs officers are usually sympathetic, allowing us to import the tastes of home duty-free...
Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...