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...list of climate change's victims, you can now add the suffering Gorgonia. Scientists at Spain's Higher Council of Scientific Investigation (CSIC) have discovered that lengthening summers in the Mediterranean are having dire effects on the familiar fan-shaped coral, as well as on many other kinds of marine invertebrates. In a study published April 14 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they argue that for the Gorgonia and its kin, longer summers equal nothing short of mass death...
...Cuba's ties go back well before Castro. In 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American war, a defeated Spain signed the rights to its territories - including Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam - over to the U.S., which subsequently granted Cuba its independence with the stipulation that the U.S. could intervene in the country's affairs if necessary (later relinquished) and that it be granted a perpetual lease on its naval base at Guantánamo Bay (not). For the next half-century the two countries more or less cooperated, with the U.S. helping to squash rebellions and heavily investing...
...nations that are frequently held up as exemplars of modernization. In development stars such as South Korea and Thailand, political convulsions have demonstrated that economic growth on its own does not make for prosperity and stability. To be sure, Mexico has not seen the modernization on all fronts that Spain experienced in the years after the end of Franco's dictatorship, but Spain's progress was much helped by the country's early accession to the European Union, with all the real and symbolic benefits that flow from it. The U.S. is never going to offer Mexico the sort...
...pennies on streets around its 650 restaurants. On the coins are stickers offering free meals, free drinks and buy-one-get-one-free deals. Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and sandwich chain, gave away free sandwiches in its U.S. locations on April 1. Shops in Great Britain, Australia and Spain have experimented with "pay what you want" options on their menus...
...pictures from Semana Santa, Spain's holy week