Hints and tips:
...Scientists are struggling to understand what is driving the changes and the interplay between natural variability and human-driven warming in the far south....
...US companies have been piling into convertible bonds as they search for ways to keep interest costs down, in a rare flurry of activity in otherwise subdued fundraising markets....
...Dock workers echoed this: a man who works in the dry docks told me that in places the steel hull had decayed to the point where it was dangerously thin, necessitating the replacement of entire sections....
...Ballymore says the signs reference “our broader vision, which includes the restoration of the Grade II-listed Orchard Dry Dock . . . We’re bringing that back to its former glory”....
...Why Built in 1928, this half-timbered house has a terraced garden leading on to a deep water dock....
...There was a funfair atmosphere when Tainan Air Base in south Taiwan opened its doors to the public one Saturday morning in October....
...Let’s make the citizens choose between revolution and restoration.”...
...First as a fisherman and now as the skipper of a tourist cruiser, Sid Currie has witnessed first hand the slow and steady decline of Plymouth’s Devonport naval base in south-west England....
...“We have arranged the skeleton in an S-shaped lunge-feeding pose,” says Richard Sabin, the museum’s marine mammals curator....
...Perenyi’s easy-going charm and deep knowledge of art perhaps explain why people were taken in....
...Summer brings fruits from Taiwan, South Korea and Japan; it’s also lychee season....
...Liverpool has set store by a £300m investment in a deep water quay to help revive its once-declining docks....
...The newest parador, in the wilds of south-western Asturias, both reminds us of the brand’s many virtues, and suggests it may be on the verge of a promising new era....
...Archie Bethel, who runs the listed company’s marine and technology division and sits on the main board, is responsible for the Devonport operations, as well as the Rosyth naval docks and the submarine base...
...A coastal patch of Maine, either blanketed in fog or bathed in marine sunlight, is the very antithesis of most of my travel destinations. But the dream of it has made me a better traveller....
...The symbolism runs deep....
...There is a private helipad and seaplane, and deep draft docks....
...A US government study just two years afterwards found no impact on the deep-sea shrimp population, or on the small animals such as worms that live on the sea bed....
...Had come to a head in Fallujah, where marines were planning to enter in force. How did Blair view that situation?...
...… Only in four very small marine parks do commercial fishermen need a licence to fish in Hong Kong waters; I could buy a boat and start trawling tomorrow in Deep Water Bay....
...or South Bristol....
...Or considering how best to make it from the Gamba Oil Terminal in Gabon to the oil dock (which happens to be beside the Ikea store) in Bayonne, New Jersey?...
...All are frantically extending their docks and building new quays to allow them to increase capacity....
...“Liverpool is reviving itself and pulling itself up from pretty deep places,” says Jim Gill of Liverpool Vision, which is co-ordinating the architectural regeneration of the city....
...So much water, scattering the reflections of dock pilings rooted in deep mud, is consoling, and so are the smells and sounds, of paint and sawdust, the churring of power tools, the old skills of patiently...
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