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European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre - Euro-Mediterraneen Seismological Centre to establish and operate a system for rapid determination of the European and Mediterranean earthquake epicentres.
Med-Regio - Center of Euro-Mediterranean regions for the environment, the sustainable and balanced development of space, the culture and the participatory spatial planning. Offers profile, policies, activities and organisations involved. Located in Greece.
Medalus - International research project to investigate the effects of desertification on land use in Mediterranean Europe.
MED-HYCOS 2.0 Mediterranean Hydrologic Observing System - Project monitors hydrologic conditions in 19 Mediterranean countries, to help the region to better cope with difficulties of water excess or scarcity, water pollution and environmental degradation.
Desertification - Detailed report supported by Greenpeace that examines the potential implications of global climate change for the Mediterranean region.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Earth Science Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Earth Science The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what Earth Science I was nauseous and tingly all over... 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And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Earth Science As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Earth Science "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Earth Science Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Earth Science I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Earth Science Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Earth Science "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Earth Science Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Earth Science Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Earth Science Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Earth Science Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Earth Science When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Earth Science There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Earth Science No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Earth Science "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. 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