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...While much of the focus is on Africa, developed but semiarid European countries along the northern Mediterranean also are suffering from desertification and deforestation. Much of the soil of Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal has become saline and sterile as a result of fire, drought, floods, overgrazing, overtilling and other factors. Such degradation can be irreversible. As industry, tourism and farming place greater stress on coastal areas in particular - and groundwater levels decline - "water wars" are becoming internal. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards recently took to the streets of Madrid and Barcelona to protest government plans to divert the country...
...Thompson: They?ve looked at other sites in Scotland and in the Mediterranean, I think. The problem with the other possible sites is that where Vieques offers every possible training scenario, those other sites maybe offer one or two of those scenarios. So you?d have pilots having to travel to practice different maneuvers. No one site other than Vieques provides such comprehensive capabilities for training...
...Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson. "I thought the book would be a good look at the culture he's attached to. It's a beautiful book. Tragic. But he didn't like it. Last year I gave him a book by Paul Beatty, The White Boy Shuffle, about a black youth...
...13th century, Mongolia was the center of the uncivilized world. United by Genghis Khan in 1206 with the aim of conquering all known lands, the delinquent barbarians of the Eastern Steppes pulverized living standards from the Pacific to the Mediterranean in two generations. Today, something of the legacy of Genghis endures. Frigid winters and parched summers have reduced the once proud nomads to medieval poverty, fighting for the survival of their traditional way of life. And although full-time herding may be dying out, riding the stocky ponies that were the panzers of Genghis' galloping blitzkrieg is still the best...
...Garreau is experiencing the new reality of the New Economy, and he is not alone. Across the Mediterranean Sea, brothers Antonello and Gianpiero Girardi would like $250,000 to expand their tiny website concern aimed at Sardinian tourists, but they have already been turned down by 10 venture capital funds. And in London, Niko Komninos and E. David Anstee, co-founders of ihavemoved.com, sit in their offices behind Westminster Abbey and mull over how to secure $9 million in expansion money for their site, which helps people who are changing residences notify utilities and other service providers electronically. Potential investors...