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Kiribati hoping for more climate change help as it faces rising sea levels
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The president of the South Pacific nation of Kiribati, threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change, appealed Monday for more international help in relocating families whose homes have been submerged.
So far, only New Zeland has begun taking in Kiribati families, President Anote Tong said after talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
He warned during last week's World Environment Day, hosted in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, that parts of his island nation were already being submerged, forcing some of Kiribati's 94,000 people living in shoreline ...
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Sailor's delight - Salem reclaims fame for hometown mariner Nathaniel Bowditch.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...edition of Salem native Nathaniel Bowditch's "The New American...Two years later, Nathaniel was indentured to...as a bookkeeper. Bowditch used his downtime...A descendant, Nathaniel H. "Nate'' Bowditch, who lives in Salem...
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Nathaniel Bowditch, 53; brought personal touch to Maine inn
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Nathaniel Bowditch was an innkeeper. But more than that...chocolate cookies and treated to Mr. Bowditch's near encyclopedic knowledge of everything...experience, his wife said. . Mr. Bowditch, who served as Maine's deputy director...
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Nathaniel H. Bowditch, The Last Emerging Market: from Asian tigers to African lions? The Ghana file.
Magazine article from: Africa
; ...201 pp., US$55.00, ISBN 0 275 965888 0. Nathaniel Bowditch, an American, arrived in Ghana for the first time...pertinently, back in the 1960s and early 1970s Nathaniel Bowditch had worked in Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka...
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Peirce and Bowditch: an American contribution to correlation and regression.(Charles Sanders Peirce)(Henry Pickering Bowditch)
Magazine article from: The American Statistician
; ...that bore a striking resemblance to the [phi]-coefficient. 2. BOWDITCH AND GALTON Henry Pickering Bowditch was the grandson of a Harvard mathematician, Nathaniel Bowditch, whose most famous work was his translation of LaPlace's Mecanique...
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Olivia Y. Bowditch, 74 Former naval officer, teacher
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...author of the standard text on navigation Nathaniel Bowditch, died Tuesday in Sherill House in Boston...the Buckingham School in Cambridge. Miss Bowditch leaves three brothers, Nathaniel Bowditch of Peterborough, N.H., Hoel L. Bowditch...
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Philip Bowditch, engineer, designed systems used in landings on the moon
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...60 years, Marion Coulter; two sons, Nathaniel Bowditch of Kittery, Maine, and Stephen Bowditch of Newburyport; two daughters, Jean...of Ellicott City, Md.; a brother, Nathaniel Bowditch of Peterborough, N.H.; and nine...
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BOWDITCH INSTITUTE
Magazine article from: Sea Classics
; ...theme observed the return of Nathaniel Bowditch from his final ocean voyage...the lucrative spice trade. Bowditch retired from the sea on the...Proceeds from the event funds the Nathaniel Bowditch Fellowship of the Phillips Library...
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RICHARD BOWDITCH PAIGE, BANKER, SHEEP FARMER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Richard Bowditch Paige was not only a bank executive...72. A great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Bowditch, the 18th century navigational pioneer...Stephen, Charles "Todd", and Nathaniel "Sandy", all of Maine; a sister...
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Philip Bowditch, 86, author, scientist on Apollo project
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...life," said his son Nathaniel of Kittery, Maine...After retiring, Mr. Bowditch wrote children's books...her children," Mr. Bowditch wrote in his fable about...wife and sons, Mr. Bowditch leaves two daughters...Md.; a brother, Nathaniel of Peterborough, N...
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HOEL LAWRENCE BOWDITCH, 89; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, INVENTOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...a large hooked nose, Mr. Bowditch was no shrinking violet...Peter. Just days before Mr. Bowditch died, his son brought him...his son and daughter, Mr. Bowditch leaves two sons, Harry of...brothers, Philip of Maine and Nathaniel of New Hampshire; 10 grandchildren...
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