Word: mediterraneans
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...from the Libyan ports of Zlitan and Zuwarah, and land on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, just 120 km from the north African coast. Almost 1,800 arrived there just last week. But each year hundreds die in attempted crossings when their rickety fishing boats sink in the Mediterranean swells. Italy has begun an unprecedented crackdown on the new arrivals, who have become a hot political issue for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In the past, immigrants were typically given up to 60 days while the government checked their identities and assessed their status; now, most are flown back...
...those who desire designer food for their picnic, there's no shortage of options. Renowned chef Alain Ducasse's bakery and gourmet food shop be (boulangerie-?picerie) makes a mouthwatering gourmet picnic box featuring vitello tonnato (cold, thinly sliced veal with fresh tuna and sauce on toasted bread), Mediterranean pasta salad, salt-and-pepper potato chips and a chocolate lollipop. At j30 it's a steal when compared to a sit-down dinner in one of his three-star restaurants. The truly hedonistic can opt for Le Cube from Petrossian, a three-tiered translucent picnic box that includes...
...those who desire designer food for their picnic, there's no shortage of options. Renowned chef Alain Ducasse's bakery and gourmet food shop be (boulangerie-épicerie) makes a mouthwatering gourmet picnic box featuring vitello tonnato (cold, thinly sliced veal with fresh tuna and sauce on toasted bread), Mediterranean pasta salad, salt-and-pepper potato chips and a chocolate lollipop. At €30 it's a steal when compared to a sit-down dinner in one of his three-star restaurants. The truly hedonistic can opt for Le Cube from Petrossian, a three-tiered translucent picnic box that includes...
...themselves with the Italian city-states instead of following the “shameful road of appeasement,” much as (according to him) modern France would benefit from allying with America. I fear that he has lost track of how complicated the political divisions of the medieval Mediterranean really were. Constantinople fell in 1453 not because it failed to collaborate with western Europe but because of centuries of economic decline and lack of military innovation. Hastening this collapse was the brutal ambush of Constantinople by Venetian Crusaders in 1204; ignorant Christian warriors melted ancient Greek statues to sell...
...Frankels, it seems that their adventure in homebuilding is paying off. On their plot now stands the frame for a majestic 8,000-sq.-ft. Mediterranean. Although they are pouring $1.5 million into construction, when the place is completed early next year, they estimate that it will be worth more than double that amount...