Word: layering
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Atitlan is indeed breathtaking, but nowadays it is leaving many visitors gasping for breath. A thick brown sludge is tarnishing its once blue waters. It is the result of decades of ecological imbalance, brought on by economic and demographic pressures. The unsightly and smelly layer, more than 100 feet deep in some areas, is chasing tourists away from Mayan towns in the area and posing huge cleanup expenses to a government already strapped for cash. Worse, the results of a University of California, Davis, analysis found that the bacteria is toxic. Scientists are urging residents to avoid cooking with, bathing...
Even so, apprehension about backing up files online has led many customers like Vitale to take a belt-and-suspenders approach, using the cloud as a smart way to add an extra layer of security while still relying on traditional backups like external hard drives, thumb drives and archival DVDs...
Tough economic conditions have added another layer to enrollment questions. At budget-strapped GSAS, increases in applications have not translated into increased international enrollments. According to Berg, GSAS sought to reduce this year’s class size to 2007 levels after large growth in 2008 because the school could not afford the generous financial aid that it offers to graduate students. The number of students admitted to GSAS departments either dropped or did not change...
...waiting for their wages. The boats' hulls, sloshing with bloody ice water, are almost empty, only a few shiny bellies lolling in the slush. Porters have already hoisted thousands of tuna onto their shoulders and carried them to the exporters; they swarm around the fat, fresh ones whose slick layer of slime still smells like the ocean, and whose scales gleam with a hint of the yellow flush they had when blood was pumping inside them. (See pictures of tuna in trouble...
...this haziness eventually comes to highlight the distressing and straightforward condemnation that stems from Rivera’s never ceasing obsession. Each time she develops a new theory regarding Olga María’s death, a seemingly innocuous member of society is implicated and a new, authentic layer of wrongdoing is exposed...