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Hurricane Dean crashed into Mexico on Aug. 21 with winds up to 168 m.p.h., making it the first Category 5 storm to hit land since 1992. It eventually slackened, but as hurricane risks increase, weather watchers at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to sharpen their vigil on storms. Here...
...Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Italy, Tunisia and France. Yielding cork oaks aren't ever cut down; once a decade or so, their thick bark is harvested in huge strips from the trunk of the tree. Today, the survival of cultivated cork forests, many of which are on private land, depends on their worth. If nobody is buying cork, landowners will use the farmland for something else...
...Wednesday, the lights were coming back on in Gaza. That was after Ismael Haniyeh, Prime Minister of Gaza's Hamas-led government, assured the E.U. that electricity funds were being properly utilized. The 1.5 million Palestinians who live in the tiny strip of land on the Mediterranean, however, were seething - not at Haniyeh and Hamas but at Abbas, who sat out this crisis in air-conditioned comfort farther inland in the West Bank with his supporters in Fatah, the other main Palestinian group. Why blame Abbas? Because the Gazans believe he is trying force them to rebel against Hamas...
...African nation - and to involve its people as much as possible. Today's scene is the culmination of months of talks with the villagers of Gabane, 15km (10 miles) outside the capital, Gaborone. First they had to be asked for permission for a film to be made on their land. Then they needed to be told that the particular scene Minghella wanted to shoot there was a funeral. And then, of course, they had to be persuaded to show up as extras...
...here is the noteworthy difference. New York's Sarah Lawrence College fell from the highly coveted top-50 tranche of liberal-arts institutions to a no-man's-land of 18 unranked schools few readers are likely to have heard of. (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, anyone?) Sarah Lawrence had been ranked No. 45, but because the school decided to stop collecting applicants' SAT scores Sarah Lawrence is no longer listed anywhere near its highly competitive peers. In an essay published in the Washington Post last March, the college's president emeritus complained publicly that U.S. News...