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...effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent, for a change, was at peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice was such a popular destination for its mild winter, Kanigel says, that it "luxuriated in civic self-confidence [and] flaunted its excesses." England's Queen Victoria visited five years...
...Abdel Hadi Palace stinks of urine and damp. A little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant...
...WHEN... "Drink at least eight glasses of water a day!" It may have the ring of authority, but when physiologist Dr. Heinz Valtin searched for scientific evidence behind the dictum, he found the glass empty. Hot weather and exercise raise our H2O demands, but for most folks, says Valtin, eight is unnecessary, and excessive water intake can increase exposure to pollutants and in rare cases cause health problems...
...along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers. It was the wildest flooding to hit the region in more than a century. And it left everyone from homeowners to politicians to scientists wondering why it was happening now. Last week's weather doesn't fit the pattern suggested by global warming, which predicts wetter winters and drier summers as temperatures rise. "You won't hear me say it's a sign of global warming," says Vaclav Baca of Povodi Vltavy, the Czech state company that manages waterworks on the Vltava. "It simply...
...After last week's destruction, few people can fail to realize that Europe's weather may be taking a serious turn for the worse. And regardless of the role of global warming, there are measures that can be taken to prevent the same thing happening again. Bernhard Pelikan, a hydrologist at the Institute for Water Economy in Vienna, says the flooding in Austria was especially severe because of deforestation, intensive agriculture and heavy settlement around the river plains. All of these things, Pelikan argues, stop excess water from draining away and as a result "floods are higher and the water...