Word: mediterraneanize
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...Army's supersecret Delta Force had a vital mission last October: fly to the Mediterranean and prepare to rescue the hostages aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there was an unusual last-minute hitch. An undisclosed number of the elite counterterrorist troops were under investigation for in effect cheating on their expense accounts, and had to get a special dispensation from the Pentagon to leave their home base at Fort Bragg...
Some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, another disaster was in the making as an EgyptAir Boeing 73.7, en route from Athens to Cairo with approximately 100 people on board, was hijacked last Saturday and forced down at Luqa Airport on Malta. Demanding fuel to continue on to an unspecified destination, the hijackers, who identified themselves as members of a group called Egypt's Revolution, threatened a systematic execution of passengers until the plane was refueled. By Sunday morning, the Maltese government had confirmed the death of one woman, tentatively identified as Nancy Stevens, 20. The death toll was expected...
...geography, sociocultural processes and accounts of everyday life and thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal Annales from 1956 to 1968, Braudel and his eclectic methods came to dominate French historiography, and substantially influenced scholars in Britain...
...CHERRIJAM The chandelier-lit, Moroccan-style interior of this bar and supper club, tel: (61-2) 9363 0555, makes it good for intimate get-togethers and flamboyant parties alike, while the Double Bay location attracts Sydney's shovers and makers by the score. Mediterranean-influenced mains are priced from about $25. Afterward, find postprandial bliss in the hot pink cigar lounge...
...these restaurants du jour: CHERRIJAM The chandelier-lit, Moroccan-style interior of this bar and supper club, tel: (61-2) 9363 0555, makes it good for intimate get-togethers and flamboyant parties alike, while the Double Bay location attracts Sydney's shovers and makers by the score. Mediterranean-influenced mains are priced from about $25. Afterward, find postprandial bliss in the hot pink cigar lounge. MU SHU This pan-Asian restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9130 5400, lies on Bondi Beach's famed Campbell Parade and heaves with beautiful people. Chef Jo Ward trained under Australia's leading exponent of Asian...