Word: mediterraneanize
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...profit before the place was even finished. Schiller, 51, and her husband had already flipped several properties in Florida's sizzling market, and this one sounded sweet: three bedrooms, private elevator, designer appliances. Villa Medici, promised the builder, would be modeled after a "true Italian Tuscan village," featuring Mediterranean façades and a resort-style pool. "As with any 'limited edition,'" the pitch stressed, "demand always exceeds the supply...
...Monday evening Hizballah announces it has struck a second Israeli navy ship with a missile since the war began, this one off the coast of Tyre in south Lebanon. Curious residents gaze out into the Mediterranean as the sun sinks below the horizon to the west, trying, unsuccessfully, to catch a glimpse of smoke or fire. Still, the lull has encouraged a few optimists in Tyre to hope it might turn into a cease-fire. But realists listen to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's speech, in which he rejects a cease-fire, and know from bitter experience that...
...Continuing on south, the road grew lonelier and more ominous. In two places, large craters, perhaps 20 feet deep, almost completely blocked the highway south. The turquoise blue, postcard scene of the Mediterranean to our right was shattered by the churned black earth around the lips of the craters. Near one, a minivan had crashed into a telephone poll. Inside the other, down the road, someone's car, a red Toyota, I think, looked like it had fallen inside, almost as if it had been carelessly tossed aside like...
...about what an ideal peace between Israel and the Palestinians would involve. Since before World War II, most reasonable observers have known that sooner or later, two states--one with a Jewish majority, one with an Arab one--would share the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. That was the basis of the talks between Israel and the Palestinians in the last year of the Clinton Administration; it was acknowledged by the meeting of Arab states in Beirut in 2002, when they committed themselves to "normal relations" with Israel if it withdrew to its pre-1967 borders...
...Even the Christian quarter at the tip of Tyre's promontory that juts into the dark blue Mediterranean has emptied. The small stone Maronite and Catholic churches have closed. Families lugged heavy suitcases along the quarter's narrow alleyways to their cars, arguing about what to take and leave. Those elderly residents who refuse to leave sat on their doorsteps sipping tiny cups of coffee and glumly watching their neighbors flee. For them, and anyone else who chooses to stay, the future looks especially grim; even if they can escape the attacks, they face the prospect of being...