Word: oceaneering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. But the stingray look has some experts concerned. "Because they aren't traditional, high-value fish food, sharks, skates and rays are some of the most underprotected fish species in the world," says Sonja Fordham, an international-fisheries specialist with the Ocean Conservancy, a private nonprofit that does science-based advocacy on ocean issues. "In most cases we don't know how their populations are doing. Stingrays are just not as easy to count as cows." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...grandson of the founder of the Berlitz language schools and a onetime head of the company's publications, he reportedly spoke more than 30 languages. But it was his 1974 best seller The Bermuda Triangle, on the disappearance of planes and ships in an area of the Atlantic Ocean, that made him internationally famous...
...unlimited research dollars, I would say: sure! But we don't, and I think a better return for our quality of life would come from investigating the ocean and its fisheries or a number of other research areas. Casey Roberts Portland...
...Even on the page, the siren-sucker relationship is a lot livelier than in Truffaut?s frozen ?Mermaid.? Which, by the way, never gets to Mississippi, or even to North America. The first setting is Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going...
Saito has mixed feelings about his native Hawaii. “I love the weather there, the warmth of people and mix of cultures, but I can’t stand that it’s a rock in the middle of the ocean and can sometimes be isolating,” he Saito, who has become at home with the wealth of interaction and contradiction Harvard has to offer...