Word: mediterranean
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...parents know what they want. Catholics from a remote Mediterranean village who came to Manchester last May, three months before the birth, they wanted to save both twins. But when they learned it was impossible, they asked for treatment to be stopped. They told the court, "We could not possibly agree to any surgery being undertaken that will kill one of our daughters. We have faith in God, and we are quite happy for God's will to decide what happens...
...reflected President Vladimir Putin's declared intention to rebuild the navy at least to the levels of the French and British fleets, if not to the size and might of the U.S. Navy. It was intended as a dress rehearsal for a show-of-force cruise of the eastern Mediterranean later this year to be led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the battle cruiser Peter the Great. Losing the Kursk is a major setback for these plans and for Putin's naval ambitions. "He has aligned himself personally with the revival of the navy's fortunes," says Kidd...
Everything is different when you are completely nude, though it helps when everyone around you--in line at the post office or dancing at a disco, for example--is naked too. Inside the walls of the "naturist quarter" at Le Cap d'Agde, a sprawling French resort on the Mediterranean Sea that is reputedly the largest assemblage of naked souls in this world, the undressed population soars to 40,000 during July and August...
There are dozens of naturist (Europeans prefer this word to nudist to stress its back-to-nature aspect) beaches and resorts on the Mediterranean. Naturism began here in the 1950s at a simple campground that attracted Northern Europeans who wanted to strip in the sun. It took off, however, in 1970, following the French government's decision to promote naturist resorts as a means of diversifying the economy in the face of a decline in the local fishing and winemaking industries...
...test this, I don clothes one day and head into the textile part of town, which is one of the most lively, entertaining and congested ports on the Mediterranean. Curious as to why everyone else around here is not a naturist, I approach a topless twentysomething woman on the Richelieu Beach who is attired--if that is the correct word--in a microscopic string monokini. Why, I ask her, isn't she over in the naturist colony to "see and be seen...