As roughly a third of the ice covering the Arctic has disappeared over the past 30 years, however, gray seals have begun to follow their favorite prey into the ring seals' territory, says Sue Moore, a biological oceanographer at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office of Science and Technology in Seattle, Washington.
Since June 2007 and the Hamas takeover of Gaza in a brief war with its secular rival Fatah, both Israel and Egypt have tried to seal the territory.
Egypt's military-led government had essentially sealed off the territory, shutting down not only the travel crossing but also hundreds of smuggling tunnels that Gaza relies on for building materials, cheaper fuel, weapons and other products restricted by Israel.
Only once under Fergsuon, in 1998-99, have United clinched top spot at their so-called Theatre of Dreams, the other nine all being sealed on opposition territory or by watching on as their rivals stumbled.
The good news, for those who still seek to build a multi-ethnic Bosnia, is that the Serb nationalists are failing to keep their ethnic cousins, who control 49% of Bosnia's territory, hermetically sealed from the Muslims and Croats who run the remainder.
By 2006, almost 100,000 km2 of EU soil (2.3% of the whole territory) had been sealed, with a per capita quota of 200 m2 of sealed surface for each EU citizen.
Israel sealed off the Palestinian territories before the weeklong Jewish holiday of Passover, which began Wednesday evening.
The Palestinian territories were sealed off, and tight closures were reinstated around Palestinian towns and villages, paralysing all movement.Two monologuesThe May 17th meeting produced an agreement to meet again.
As the intifada developed into an increasingly militarized conflict in 1993, and Israel sealed off the occupied territories in March that year, Israeli negotiators held secret meetings with Palestinians near Oslo.
Similar derision greeted Israel's promised withdrawals earlier this month, which amounted to a few roads being opened in Gaza, and to PA policemen steering traffic in Bethlehem, but left both areas utterly sealed from other Palestinian territories, and still penurious in their economies.
