Word: sea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement ensures that Japan will provide military support for American forces in an Asian crisis; this is especially important given the current volatility of the region. Under the terms of this pact, military support could come in the form of U.S. access to Japanese bases, Japanese minesweeping of sea lanes and joint U.S.-Japan evacuation of civilians in the event of a war. In the case of North Korea attacking South Korea, or China doing the same to Taiwan, for example, Japan now has the permission of the United States to aid American military efforts. Sounds good, right? Wrong...
Glaciers around the world are melting and the sea level has been rising, says Kevin Trenberth, climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Yet chemical companies and some members of Congress have complained that any guidelines could decrease the competitiveness of the U.S. in the global market and that any agreement calling for a similar reduction in pollutants from Europe and the U.S. would affect the U.S. more than any other country...
...sea of exhibits, everything is hands-on. There are massage tables everywhere, and people are always handing you a sample of wheatgrass juice or some chartreuse-colored miracle supplement that will do everything short of rotating your tires. Someone named Lissa from Montana explains how a small, stainless-steel medallion known as the BioElectric Shield ($139) can be "the most powerful protection on the planet" against everything from computer screens to microwaves and cell phones...
...school by bodyguards, who hasn't traveled much and who has been working what are often 18-hour days since the age of 17. Chatting with her, one learns she is afraid of ants, likes "crafts" (she is a practitioner of the nearly lost art of decoupage) and keeps sea monkeys as pets. "They're really kind of gross," she admits. "I came in one day, and they were having sex. They were attached, and they were like, 'Uhh...' and I was like, 'Ohh... ' Three days later, they ate their babies...
...infidelity, political corruption, sibling rivalry, alienation, death, etc. It has the necessary passionate love scene, the anguished drunk lover's "let's destroy the car" scene, the rushing to the airport to find your lover's already flown away scene and a prudent number of idyllic walks by the sea shore...