Word: reefs
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...sleeping in a tent, eating out of bowls fashioned from halved coconut shells and learning?the hard way?to gut, clean and scale fish that we then roasted over an open fire. Our days were spent exploring the island both above and below water. There's an extensive coral reef on the sheltered southwestern side, with a healthy population of reef fish and some larger predators such as sharks (mainly black and white tips), stingrays, turtles and barracuda. We also found two sea eagles nesting in a strangler fig in the interior of the island...
...Lindbergh--who bought Illiec, off France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like fir-forested, 2-acre Nubble...
...Brawerman and his team concentrate on cutting companies' website costs and putting data management back in the hands of the people who use it. Reef's software often pays for itself within a month or two, a deal many chief financial officers find hard to resist...
...Among Reef's big name clients: Air Liquide, Siemens and Vivendi. The software company currently does 65% of its business...
...Forward Spin: Reef is continuing to develop online collaborative tools that enable users to cut and paste web presentations on the fly. The company is betting that customers will want to adapt content to multiple platforms, such as TV, mobile phones and computers...