None of these countries, of course, is in the dire straits of extreme poverty and malnutrition that the African countries that Britain has targeted this year are in and which our fictional firebrand Gina was targeting in her campaign in fictional Reykjavik.
Nor is there any doubt that New York, battered by recession and the destruction of the World Trade Center, is in severe enough straits to warrant extreme measures.
Malmöhus, former län (county) of extreme southern Sweden, bounded by the Baltic Sea, The Sound (Öresund), and the Kattegat (strait).
It connects the North River (source of the St . Louis River in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which flows into Lake Superior) with Cabot Strait, leading into the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme east of Canada, crossing the interior of the North American continent for some 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometres).
Moreover, the differences observed among the loci (i.e. a strong genetic boundary revealed by the Y-chromosome polymorphism and, at the other extreme, no genetic differentiation revealed by HLA-DRB1 variation) across the strait suggest specific evolutionary histories like sex-mediated migration and natural selection.
So closing the strait outright would be – if not suicidal – an exercise in extreme self-harm for Iran.
Shelikof Strait in the Gulf of Alaska appears to be near the extreme warm southern end of the spawning range of Alaska plaice (Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus).
Yamaguchi, prefecture (ken), extreme western Honshu, Japan, bordered by the Sea of Japan East Seaa; north), the Shimonoseki Strait (southwest), and the Inland Sea (south).
Its work has the glamour of science fiction, but it involves rigorous research and, as Cabrol told me, "people who are passionate enough that they can put themselves into dire straits". That is what she does, traveling to some of the world's most extreme and dangerous environments in search of organisms that live in conditions analogous to those on Mars.
Sarah Grossman reports that billionaire tech titan Bill Gates this week announced his new initiative to fight extreme poverty particularly in West Africa -- providing 100,000 chickens to families living there in dire straits.
