Saturday, October 04, 2008

Look at this silly Lebanese press. Even nature has to be ranked now for those petty-minded ultra-nationalists. "Despite its small size, Lebanon is well represented in the new competition. Both the country's famed cedar trees - particularly those in Bsharri and the Chouf Mountains - and Jeita Grotto, in the Nahr al-Kalb Valley north of Beirut, are on the ballot to become one of the seven new wonders of nature."