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...region - that's 1% a year, twice the pace of rainforest decline - and the losses are hitting well-protected areas like the Great Barrier Reef just as hard as the stressed, overfished reefs that surround crowded countries like the Philippines. "People thought the Pacific was in much better shape," says John Bruno, lead author of the study, which was published online by the Public Library of Science. Scientists assumed that far-flung reefs in the vast waters of the Pacific would be safely isolated from negative human impact. They were wrong. "There is no such thing as an isolated reef...
...reefs, the local economy flourished and everybody - tourists, residents, and coral ecologists alike - was happy. In cases like these, one hand washes the other, says NOAA's Eakin. "If healthy coral reefs are your bread and butter, you're going to make sure they're in good shape...
MIAMI Beach glamazons adore the classic butterfly shape of these bright Donna Karans...
...visionary to effect change?someone to look left when everyone else is looking right. In the worlds of style and design, change can often be subtle and almost imperceptible and yet still have a tremendous impact on our daily lives. Designers, architects, curators, cooks?they can change the shape of a coffee mug, change the way we live, change the way we see or change the way we eat. We may not even notice until we wake up and realize that something is in fact very different about the way we dress or how we live or what...
...been badly hit. Second, problems in the U.S. housing-credit-market have also spilled over into the world of "leveraged loans," which have been widely used to finance the global boom in mergers and acquisitions. While company balance sheets in most countries are, in general, still in quite good shape, this is no longer true for some of them, not least for the targets of private-equity buyouts and for private-equity houses themselves. As an example of how quickly the sector has fallen out of favor, shares in the Blackstone Group, a private-equity giant in the U.S., have...