She is also swimming against two currents in American life: petty puritanism and a pathological obsession with safety.

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These garbage patches are vortices that form where two ocean currents meet, in effect a giant oceanic toilet that never flushes.

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"Greenberg" is a love story, yes, but it's also a tale of two people adrift in separate currents, constantly sinking and bobbing to the surface like synchro swimmers out of sync.

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The Sun's changeable magnetic field is generated at the boundary between these two layers, where strong electric currents flow.

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Over the two centuries that have followed, the currents of history have steered the relationship between our countries in many directions.

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In addition to high-definition content for 12, 000 U.S. lakes, the Magellan eXplorist 510 Marine Edition includes U.S. coastal coverage up to two miles offshore, with data on 5-foot contours, tides, currents, wrecks, port plans, marsh areas, and marine services.

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Mr Hunt does a brilliant job of setting the two men's endeavours in the context of the political, social and philosophical currents at the time.

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The USGS scientists, using tide gauge data and computer modeling, believe that a combination of factors, including the pressures of favorable ocean currents, has actually suppressed sea levels for a time, but that time ended two decades ago, and now the trend is headed upward, much faster than elsewhere.

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