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...ripped through the Indian Ocean like a forest fire. In some areas, coral mortality approached 70%. The reefs are recovering, says Abdul Azeez Abdul Hakeem, director of conservation for the Banyan Tree resort, but no one knows what will happen to them as the world's oceans continue to warm...
...grand opportunity for the disaffected right to bash, of all people, Secretary of State George Shultz. Wearing stickers emblazoned with an umbrella (to commemorate British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who sought to appease Adolf Hitler), some 150 delegates accused Shultz of being too soft on terrorists, too warm to the Soviets and too cool toward freedom fighters in Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique...
...helmet is only the latest sartorial gaffe foisted on the fighting man. Last year the Army admitted that its cotton-nylon fatigues, introduced in 1980, tore easily and were unbearably hot in warm climates, and the Pentagon canceled a new combat boot that tended to fall apart. Said one Army expert: "We don't even like to talk about that one." Like the boots, the faulty helmets will probably be replaced. But there is a defect in the process of trying to correct the defect: the military is still trying to trace the units that are wearing the helmets. TENNESSEE...
Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Weingut also granted me an audience. Standing among the 1,200-liter Stücken (large oval wine casks made of oak), I commented that his cellar was unusually warm. He explained that he dislikes the now ubiquitous modern technique of temperature control, which often promotes fruitier wines. "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air," he says. His wines--even his Spatbürgunder (Pinot Noir)--are exciting...
...news earlier today when a dinner arranged for TIME this evening with a source close to a key Italian "kingmaker" cardinal was canceled after he got cold feet. A prominent European cardinal I know has avoided direct contact with me since the Pope's death. Hopefully, those sources will warm up as the week progresses. The Americans may be the hardest to crack. TIME's Midwest bureau chief Marguerite Michaels, who knows how to squeeze information out of tight-lipped Chicago cops and UN diplomats, is politely hounding the U.S. Cardinals. But one well-connected insider said the press...