Word: mediterraneans
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...want to take the next step. "We want to be formally recognized as a couple," says Adamski. "Marriage, period. That's the contract that best protects our interests and best symbolizes our love." And so on June 19, Williams Meric, the mayor of Marseillan, the little town on the Mediterranean coast where Adamski and Dekens live, will join the two in marriage. It will be a joyous day; it is also against French law. The Adamski-Dekens match is part of an argument over same-sex marriage that has spread through the developed world in recent months. Last week...
...seat Olympic Stadium in Athens - the venue for the opening ceremony on Aug. 13 - the event was filled with drama and anxiety. Its outcome would determine whether the architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun - and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail...
After graduating from the Juilliard School and Harvard, Ma established the Silk Road Project to promote the study of the study of music and culture along the Silk Road trade route stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean...
...Butts E.U. farm ministers agreed to phase out production-linked subsidies for the region's tobacco growers - located largely in Greece and Italy - by 2010. The deal for so-called Mediterranean crops will also slash subsidies to cotton and olive producers...
...wouldn't want to spend six weeks in a Mediterranean paradise--even if it's virtual? That's how long it can take even an experienced gamer to get through the adventure PC game A Quiet Weekend in Capri ($29.99). The game is composed of more than 4,500 pictures that put players through their paces in the southern Italian retreat of Capri as they try to unravel a mystery with the help of strange tools invented by an eccentric island scientist. You can play Capri as a game, but you can also use it for virtual sightseeing. --By Jennifer...