Word: peninsulas
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...does make some sense. For this is Italy, a country particularly proud of infernos. Indeed, after the thump, thump, thumping came a reading from the peninsula's poet-prophet, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air, evoking the sinners' feet in the Inferno's Canto XX. How unholy is the thrill when you sense that the circles of hell have, in the end, been transformed into the Olympic rings...
...position on relations with the Jews. Despite the article’s characterization of Likud as a party of bloodstained terrorists, within two years of taking office Likud had made peace with Egypt, Israel’s oldest and most powerful enemy, by ceding to them the Sinai Peninsula, which included both thousands of Israeli citizens and numerous oil fields. Twenty-two years later it was another Likud government—that of Ariel Sharon—that ceded yet more territory to the Arabs when it completed the disengagement from Gaza this past summer...
...COLONY JOHN TAYMAN For more than 100 years, well into the 20th century, Hawaii had a policy of involuntarily and permanently exiling anybody who had leprosy to a tiny peninsula on the island of Molokai, walled off from civilization by the world's tallest sea cliff. The Colony is the story of the tiny, tortured community the lepers created, fighting prejudice, starvation, the elements, one another and their disease--which, we now know, was never particularly contagious...
Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last August, on one of their regular expeditions, Glenda dropped a lens cap into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry...
...thing most wildlife-management experts are sure of is that relocation programs do not work. The Queensland government has quietly stopped the practice. In an experiment, a satellite tracking device was attached to a crocodile, which was relocated from one side of Cape York Peninsula to the other. Within a few months the animal was back home, having swum about 450 km around the tip of the Cape. Read says captured crocodiles are now sold to reptile farmers or nature parks...