Word: reefs
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...diver who scoped the 50-foot-deep waters off Palm Beach before the state could examine the damage called it the worst he's ever seen from a single incident. Added Ed Tichenor, director of Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, who reported the damage to state agencies: "As far as I've been diving here, I haven't heard of a similar incident of this magnitude." The other damaged reef is located off a state park just south of Port Everglades. There, sponges have been sliced, and soft and hard corals cut and turned over. (See pictures of imperiled coral...
...night with the third night free on select dates from Nov. 23 to Jan. 6. Exotic Escape offers rooms at $119 on select dates through Jan. 6 and includes discounts for resort services and events (TIME's Joel Stein raves about the Mandalay Bay's shark reef and pool), as well as a $150 "fly back free" certificate that can be used with major airlines. See the hotel's promotion page for details. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas.) 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas...
...election, at polling sites like the Coral Reef public-library branch in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside...
...outside world, this tiny archipelago nation of some 300,000 people exists mostly in ads for sun-dappled luxury holidays. The Maldives lie southeast of India, a jumble of nearly 20,000 idyllic islands and azure lagoons nestled in coral atolls (a word for reef formations which came to English, fittingly, from Dhivehi, the local Maldivian tongue). Gayoom, 71, is chiefly responsible for building up the lucrative tourism sector - which has fast become the country's leading industry, ahead of its traditional fisheries. It has made Maldivians - at least statistically - the most affluent people in South Asia, and the country...
...climate change research in the Amazon rainforest and collected coral samples from the Great Barrier Reef this summer? That’s cool, I guess. But I got to be a Professional Television Watcher...