After five days in the open ocean, Kiley and another man were finally spotted and rescued by a passing freighter.

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Descriptions of man-meets-ocean are vivid, intoxicating and beautifully written.

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One night at dinner in an ocean-side resort, I noticed a man and a woman seated across the room.

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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.

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Authorities did not name the man whom witnesses say Brown punched, but Ocean tweeted that it was him.

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That is no argument for human carelessness, environmentalists insist: species can adapt to almost anything over millions of years, but man's activities, such as scraping the ocean floor with nets, cause unbearably abrupt changes to ecosystems which are as delicate, complex and fragile as any Brazilian forest.

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Ocean also performed his song "Forrest Gump, " the love song written about a man that first started the buzz that led to his announcement that his first love was a man.

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The story is about a mysterious man named Smelty John, who is the only one to notice a certain beauty that wafts across the ocean, over the mountains and though snow-bound fields toward him.

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