Word: oceaneering
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...intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months - war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation...
...nothing theatricality of these early electoral contests would appear to be the product of willful collaboration between the media, the candidates themselves, and their voting public, many complicit city-folk remain dissatisfied: if only the stage were set in a more cultured locale. For those Americans with an ocean view—and the inflated sense of self that comes with it—the two-month drone of pre-caucus news from landlocked, lumpy Iowa draws more than a little ire. The same lament comes up over seared ahi again and again, from the Hamptons to La Jolla...
India is also concerned by China's burgeoning and secretive defense expenditure, its building of road and rail links along the border, and its "string of pearls" strategy of setting up naval bases in the Indian Ocean. But China has its own strategic concerns, particularly the fact that India is being courted by the U.S. in a strategy aimed at forging a regional alliance comprising India, Japan, Australia and the U.S. To that end, last September, India held joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the U.S., Australia, Japan and Singapore, soon after China's military exercises with...
...Lyles isn't entirely sure. The zapped water has been ionized, he notes, and this may account for how it behaves on and in the skin. Stig Friberg, a colloid chemist and an expert in skin structure, suggests that C'watre's technology may alter the properties of the ocean water, which might in turn allow the treated water to better penetrate the skin...
...watre may be riding the crest of a trendsetting ocean wave. Major skin-care companies are looking at these "enhanced" waters with great interest, says David Fowler, CEO of Wellness Enterprises, which produces water filters and water for skin-care manufacturers. "These waters hydrate better and are biologically stable," he says. "Fungus can't grow in them, so you don't need to add preservatives...