Word: oceaneering
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...those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from Stonehenge and Loch Ness. I traced my finger on the map and landed on the Shetland Isles, an archipelago that lies at the intersection of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, 180 miles northeast of Scotland...
Over the years, Carrier worked on many projects, including the design of rocket nozzles and the behavior of large ocean waves called tsunamis. In his Harvard career, Carrier was best known for solving differential and integral equations, though he also studied fluid and solid mechanics, geophysics and oceanography...
...Club and the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, but who concedes that "this is a different challenge." Seagaia boasts five golf courses, four hotels and a convention center on six miles of Pacific coastline. It offers bowling, tennis and riding. It also has a water park called the Ocean Dome that costs $5 million a year to operate and includes simulated waves lapping at a beach made of imported crushed marble...
...Glennie has hired Starwood Resorts to manage the hotels as Sheratons and revamped pricing for the resort's services. But on a recent weekday, only a couple of dozen vacationers could be seen in the Ocean Dome. What are Glennie's plans for it? He scratches his head: "Still working on that...
...bottom of America's electronics wastebasket lies the township of Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China's Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers and high-tech appliances, the detritus of a digital revolution going on an ocean away. Blue Dongfeng trucks with heaving loads of broken hardware dominate the roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke...