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...photographed woman in the world, but her linking up with Dodi al Fayed had thrown the scavengers of celebrity into a heightened state of alert. When she took her two sons to vacation with Al Fayed's family at his St. Tropez villa in July, paparazzi followed by land, sea and air; "the kiss" in the sparkling Mediterranean waters was on the front pages of tabloids on three continents...
Relentless slaughter and overfishing will drive sharks, the top predators in the sea, to the brink of extinction [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. If the scientific community and the world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to be "nature's most fearsome predators," but what will happen when there is hardly anything left to keep the ecosystem in balance? FRED CESAR Fort Lauderdale...
Your articles underlined the urgent need to turn our fishermen into farmers--sea farmers. Rather than battling over fishing rights, nations should be establishing giant seafood farms in the multiplicity of bays and gulfs on our planet. If we are to survive, aquaculture must become as ordinary as agriculture. GILLIAM CLARKE Wesley Chapel...
...terms of the climate machine, El Nino is more than just a sudden warm current off Peru. It refers to a rise in sea-surface temperatures over much of the equatorial Pacific as well as a change in winds and ocean currents. Indeed, there is a kind of climatic flip-flop, with a reversal of conditions across a wide stretch of ocean. Consequently, climate experts no longer refer to El Nino alone but speak of the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Rather like a pendulum, the ENSO cycle swings between an El Nino state and its opposite, a cold-water state...
...monitoring the performance of newly inaugurated Iranian President MOHAMMED KHATAMI for favorable signs. It's all part of a modern version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Great Game"--the 19th century competition between Russia and Britain for influence in Central Asia. Today the prize is access to the Caspian Sea's pool of 200 billion bbl. of oil. But tapping that will require construction of the pipeline network. The U.S. hopes Iran will recognize that it is in its own interest to become a player so that it will qualify for much needed Western investment...