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This is not to say the Maldives have remained the same over time. Twenty thousand years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, says Abdulla Naseer, director of the Marine Research Center in Malé, the Maldives were not the low-lying coral islands we see today. Due to frigid ocean temperatures and vast amounts of water locked up as ice, sea levels were some 400 ft. lower then, and the reef crests loomed above the sea's surface as sheer-sided limestone pinnacles. Then, as the earth warmed and the ice melted, the rising ocean overtopped these pinnacles...
Immortalized on jukeboxes in a thousand honky-tonks, California's Folsom Prison is one of the U.S.'s best-known penitentiaries, and one of its worst. Hewn from local granite at the base of the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento, Folsom dates back to the 1880s and for decades has been a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, as its population has swelled to 70% more than capacity and the rate of violent acts nearly tripled. This year three inmates have been killed and 130 others stabbed in unmanageable violence that...
...mission began early in July, when small groups of Afghan resistance fighters infiltrated into the hills above the Soviet military air base a few miles outside Kabul. Last week more than a thousand rebel troops swooped down in a daring raid that raged for eight hours. The attack, the heaviest since Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan six years ago, was a response to the increased numbers of soldiers and supplies, including more than 80 powerful Mi-24 helicopter gunships, that have been flowing into the base over the past two months. Said one leader of the guerrillas who are known...
...thought of him when, years later, people started telling me how All in the Family had changed our culture. I didn't know what people were talking about. I thought if a couple thousand years of the Judeo-Christian ethic hadn't corrected racism and lack of equal opportunity and so forth, my little half-hour situation comedy wasn't going to do it either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...