But in measuring distance, one degree shrinks from about one hundred nine kilometers at the equator to nothing at the north and south poles.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Vinho verde producers were also famous for forcing their vines to grow high off the ground, allowing more grapes to grow at the expense of the quality, using anything from trees to fences to telephone poles.

BBC: Portugal��s anti-port

From the earth's poles to the tropics, from the oceans to the planet's most fertile farming regions, global warming could present daunting challenges.

FORBES: Beyond Copenhagen

The 11 imams, sheiks and religious teachers from nine countries met a Holocaust survivor and Poles whose families risked execution to save Jews from the Nazis, in the Polish capital's Nozyk Synagogue as part of the tour.

BBC: Europe