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  1. -10-20-05 Wilma Strikes the Caribbean (MSNBC News)
      "Hurricane Wilma rapidly strengthened into one of the Americas' most intense storms ever and lashed Caribbean coastlines Wednesday, forcing tourists to flee as it threatened to slam into Cancun and southern Florida." 10-05

  2. Puerto Rico is in "Caribbean"

  3. Caribbean Islands (Library of Congress)
      Provides information on history, politics, and economy by Island. Visitors sometimes misspell as Carribbean, Caribean, or Carribean. 6-02

  4. Caribbean Islands

  5. Caribbean

  6. Caribbean Islands - St. Lucia (StLucia.org)
      Provides tourist information about the island. Visitors sometimes misspell as Carribbean, Caribean, or Carribean. 6-02

  7. Caribbean Islands (Geographia.com)
      Provides tourist information by Island. Visitors sometimes misspell as Carribbean, Caribean, or Carribean. 6-02

  8. Caribbean Islands (EIA.DOE.gov)
      Provides information on the energy resources of the islands. Visitors sometimes misspell as Carribbean, Caribean, or Carribean. 6-02

  9. -Evacuation: Cuban Evacuation Success (CNN News)
      "Cuba is the largest and most populated island in the Caribbean yet is consistently experiences the lowest death tolls during hurricane season. According to United Nations, it's not because Cubans are lucky but because they're prepared."

      "State run television and the civil defense authority bombard the population with information and instructions about what measures to take. On every block, there's a person assigned to take a census on who is being evacuated to which shelter, with special attention paid to the elderly and pregnant women." 9-05

  10. Columbus, Christopher (EnchantedLearning.com)
      "Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to trade for spices). He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504."
    05-06

  11. Southern Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist Convention)
      "Since its organization in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has grown to over 16 million members who worship in more than 42,000 churches in the United States. Southern Baptists sponsor about 5,000 home missionaries serving the United States, Canada, Guam and the Caribbean, as well as sponsoring more than 5,000 foreign missionaries in 153 nations of the world."

      "The term "Southern Baptist Convention" refers to both the denomination and its annual meeting."

  12. -07-22-10 Weather and the Oil Spill (Time.com)
      "Time to play good news/bad news on the Gulf spill once again. Good news: retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen told reporters today that he was all but ready to authorize BP's static kill procedure, which would involve pumping mud in through the containment cap, and that it could begin within 48 hours. If it works, the procedure could bring an earlier end to a blown well that has spilled up to 190 million gallons of oil into the Gulf."

      "However, there's trouble brewing on the horizon—literally. A storm is forming in the Caribbean, and the system is likely to move into the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, with a 50% chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm by Friday." 07-10

  13. Hope for the Coral Reefs (CNN News)
      "Reefs are often referred to as the rainforests of the sea. They attract more marine life than anywhere else in the ocean because of the natural shelter they provide. But they're declining worldwide, not just in Florida, and some scientists fear that they could all be gone by 2050."

      "Many people around the world depend on fisheries and the ocean for their livelihood. In the Florida Keys alone, more than 50 percent of the local economy is connected to a healthy marine environment."

      " 'We've been able to recreate one of the biggest thickets in the Florida Keys of staghorn coral, and that's something we can duplicate throughout the Keys and throughout the Caribbean,' " [Ken] Nedimyer said." 03-12

  14. Shutdown of the Thermohaline Currents and Climate (Wikipedia.org)
      "Heat is transported from the equator polewards mostly by the atmosphere but also by ocean currents, with warm water near the surface and cold water at deeper levels. The best known segment of this circulation is the Gulf Stream, a wind-driven gyre, which transports warm water from the Caribbean northwards." 03-12

  15. -Coral Reef Bleaching Crisis (CBS News)
      "Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say."

      "The spread of sickly white started more than a year ago in Guam, then devastated Hawaii, infected the rest of the tropical Pacific and the Indian oceans and has now infested Florida and the Caribbean. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and international reef scientists pronounced it a global coral bleaching event, only the third in recorded history."

      "Even though coral reefs are one-tenth of 1 percent of the ocean floor by area, they are home to 25 percent of the world's fish species, Eakin said." 10-15

  16. Puerto Rico

  17. Puerto Rico (MRS)

  18. Cuban News (Granma Internacional)
      Provides news from Cuba in Cuban. 4-00

  19. Puerto Rico (Weber Publications)
      Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the capital, San Juan. 10-00

  20. Cuba - An American View (Oregonian)
      Describes Cuba from the view of a visiting American journalist who wants to see the culture of Cuba undamaged when embargos are lifted in the future. He describes people in Cuba as happy but not satisfied, while he describes Americans as satisfied but not happy. 12-01

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