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...list of climate change's victims, you can now add the suffering Gorgonia. Scientists at Spain's Higher Council of Scientific Investigation (CSIC) have discovered that lengthening summers in the Mediterranean are having dire effects on the familiar fan-shaped coral, as well as on many other kinds of marine invertebrates. In a study published April 14 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they argue that for the Gorgonia and its kin, longer summers equal nothing short of mass death...
...Libya Tragedy on the High Seas In one of the worst such accidents on record, more than 200 people attempting to illegally enter Europe drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean. The vessel was one of at least two that left from Libya and encountered bad weather. It was most likely bound for the Italian island of Lampedusa; more than 30,000 migrants arrive there from Africa every year, according to the International Organization for Migration...
...while the Holocaust survivors clapped along to the violins and the oriental drumming. For the young musicians, raised behind the Israeli security barrier surrounding much of the West Bank, there was an added bonus to the trip: it was the first time many of the kids had seen the Mediterranean sea, which shimmered in the Spring sunshine. The kids even coaxed the event's benefactor, Sheri Arison, a philanthropist and probably Israel's wealthiest woman, onto the dance floor. (See pictures of Israel's recent war in Gaza...
...convoy was theirs, said it numbered only 15 trucks and was laden with fewer weapons than the Israeli sources claim. "The Israelis are trying to overplay the quantity of arms as a way to justify this raid and to mobilize the Europeans to crack down on smugglers in the Mediterranean," he said. In January, Cypriot authorities seized an Iranian freighter that the U.S. and Israel claim was shipping arms to Hamas in Gaza. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
Interhouse restrictions are a blatant injustice. Freshmen have Annenberg, but what do Quadlings have? Boloco? The guys there know me as “Regular Mediterranean Tofu” from all my post-rejection visits and I am, accordingly, ashamed...