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...rare for a farmer to appreciate the predators that eat the animals he raises. But Miguel Medialdea is hardly an ordinary farmer. Looking out on to the carpet of flamingos that covers one of the lagoons that make up Veta la Palma, the fish farm in southern Spain where he is biologist, Medialdea shrugs. "They take about 20% of our annuel yield," he says, pointing at a blush-colored bird as it scoops up a sea bass. "But that just shows the whole system is working...
From its early days of car bombs and kidnappings, Hizballah has matured into one of the world's most formidable guerilla forces. The group continues to have legitimacy among many Lebanese because it - not the Lebanese Army or the United Nations - forced Israel out of southern Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation. But instead of encouraging Israel to settle the grievances left over from that occupation, U.S. policy has focused on disarming Hizballah by force. This culminated in 2006 with the Bush Administration giving Israel the green light to bomb Hizballah into submission. But that war only reinforced...
Those differences, however, don't matter much to Midwestern surfers. Last December, Vince Deur, co-chair of the Surfrider Foundation's chapter here, took a group of friends to the southern shore of Lake Michigan. The air temperature was about 25 degrees. A winter storm covered much of the lake, sending fierce winds from the north to create waves nearly 2 ft. above Deur's head. "The waves," he recalls, "had some nice shape and power." "But look," he continues, "we know that in the world of great surfing, as far as quality goes, we're at the bottom...
...Bund seats 350 diners and is located in Clifford Pier (circa 1933; named after then governor Sir Hugh Clifford) - a building that had not been in use since ferry operations to Singapore's Southern Islands relocated in 2006. The installation has been sensitively done: when building the restaurant, the 45-year-old Yeung was required by local authorities to avoid tampering with the beloved colonial structure - especially the arched trusses that span almost the entire length of the building. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnant women, but it is dispensed widely in Europe and other places to treat morning sickness. In the new study, the largest one of maternal metoclopramide use to date, involving nearly 3,500 babies born between 1998 and 2007 in a region in southern Israel, the rate of congenital birth defects in babies born to mothers who used the anti-nausea drug was about the same as that in babies whose mothers had not (5.3% vs. 4.9%). What's more, the length of time pregnant women used the drug appeared to not affect...