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...have to be a marine biologist to understand the importance of corals - just ask any diver. The tiny underwater creatures are the architects of the beautiful, electric-colored coral reefs that lie in shallow tropical waters around the world. Divers swarm to them not merely for their intrinsic beauty, but because the reefs play host to a wealth of biodiversity unlike anywhere else in the underwater world. Coral reefs are home to more than 25% of total marine species. Take out the corals, and there are no reefs - remove the reefs, and entire ecosystems collapse...
...cliché, context over judgment. The book's title is partly a reference to Hurley, a 2-m-tall career cop who had been decorated for bravery and eschewed comfortable postings for trouble spots like Palm Island, a former open-air Aboriginal jail where "the heat attacks like a swarm of insects," writes Hooper, and "booze and loathing" fill the stifling air. Hurley, she acknowledges, was impressive on the stand: "He seemed grave. He seemed sincere. He really could have been an old screen idol. A man from a time when men had grit...
Here in Iowa, a swarm of locusts should be descending any minute now. After being plagued for the past three weeks by natural disasters of near-Biblical proportion, from wrath-of-God-style tornadoes to epic flooding, what next...
...lunchtime in Vitas, the sprawling slum built on the City of Manila's garbage dump. Flies swarm as Bing, a 34-year-old mother of five, prepares a meal of salted rice for her children. While she feeds them, her husband sifts through the mounds of grease-stained cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and broken glass that crowd their home. He'll sell his rotten harvest for about $3.50. For their family of seven, that?s 50 cents per person, per day. The arithmetic is simple, Bing says. "With every child I have, there is less rice each. I can?...
...precision in Probst's setups, she doesn't mind showing the clutter in her work, often allowing her swarm of cameras to photograph one another. One shot may thus fool us, while the next reveals the very equipment that did the fooling. The trickery is disarmed by honesty--and we're disarmed along with...