The sea itself has receded, and where merry green waves once splashed there are wastelands, vineyards, silence.
And the meditative music, which is so technically challenging that Mr Glass originally had trouble finding performers for it, washes over listeners, as coolly vast and mysterious as the sea itself.
She will increase the prestige, quality of education and, most importantly, the character of the leaders who as commissioned Coast Guard officers will ultimately lead our Service while protecting the Nation from threats on the sea, protecting people who use the sea, and protecting the sea itself.
The old front on Beach Road long ago lost sight of the sea and the hotel itself nearly disappeared in a concrete jungle of new hotels and office blocks.
And there is a chance, at least, that Mr Khatami and Mr Putin will use their forthcoming meeting to reach an agreement on how the Caspian Sea itself should be shared among its five littoral states.
Members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), alarmed by China's vague, unexplained but sweeping claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, encouraged America to involve itself in the issue.
What is certain is, if these committees fail to perform due diligence on the Law of the Sea Treaty, the United States could well soon find itself creating and confronting a United Nations on steroids.
Consider the Center for Political Accountability itself as a barometer of the activist sea change.
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Back in February the English website of the news organisation was hacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).
For workers and employers alike, the mobile revolution represents a sea change in productivity and the very nature of work itself.
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Even the most potentially disturbing suggestion, which involves fertilising the oceans with iron in order to promote the growth of planktonic algae (in the hope that they would sink to the seabed, taking their carbon with them), can be covered by the London Convention on marine pollution, which regulates dumping at sea, and has already addressed itself to research in the area.
It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.
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The house itself had an open-air courtyard, intimately connected to the gardens and the sea by large rooms that could be opened in such a way that no walls interrupted the flow of people or air from the patios to the courtyard, which was filled with sun and palm trees.
It is far better out to sea than it would be in the national park itself.
Conversely, a strong negative AO such as this winter's may trap more ice in the Beaufort Sea, allowing it to thicken and refortify itself.
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Others are so large that their ridges and peaks tangle with those of the mainland itself to produce an ambiguity of land and sea.
The city itself has become an island of hot pavement in a sea of green.
And of course, with its rapidly growing land and sea-based ballistic missile arsenal, Iran itself is the fastest growing missile threat facing Israel.
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It is hoped they will help minimise the impact of sea lice - a naturally-occurring parasite that attaches itself to both farmed and wild salmon.
But their affinity for nation-building, which required that big business and big government collaborate on sea-to-sea projects, reaches back past European immigration and the Republican party itself to the Whig and Federalist imperative to transform the American hodgepodge into a union in fact complete with a fully integrated continental economy, national education, and so on.
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And the rivalry doesn't stop at sea - Malaysia is also looking to promote itself as a hub for air transport.
Similarly, when an octopus changes skin color in self-defense, such as by mimicking a poisonous sea snake, the decision may come not from central command but from the skin itself.
Taiwan seeks to protect itself from missile attack, naval blockade and general harassment from the air and by sea.
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Though the industry itself has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, leading manufacturers like Shanghai Watch and Sea-Gull have found it difficult to shake their low-cost associations.
"Today everyone is focused on reducing nutrient inputs to the sea in order to reduce eutrophication (the effect of excessive nutrients) in the Baltic, but by helping nature itself to deal with the phosphorus that is discharged we can create a turbo effect in the battle against eutrophication, " said Anders Stigebrandt, of the University of Gothenburg's Department of Earth Sciences.
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