Likewise, the intensely salty water wouldinstantlyburnandlikely blindthe eyes-both reasons why Dead Sea swimmersrarely fully submerge their bodies, Ionescu noted.
Satyajit Chatterjee at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Felicia Anamaria Ionescu at Colgate University recently published a paper examining the possible market for student loan insurance.
But Mr Ionescu said the Romanian state had no strategy of integrating the Roma, which officially numbered 535, 000 - about 2.5% of the population - but was thought to total over a million.