I arrived in a remote quarter in the middle of Paris, a kind of solitary oasis which the river encircles in its arms on both sides as though to defend it against the encroachments of civilisation.
A crop of skyscrapers encircles a harbour decorated with sleek motorboats and a Ferretti yacht costing $5.5m.In this section Mine, all mine Costly even for Croesus Still smuggling A step backwards ReprintsThe musseques, as the self-built settlements of the poor are called in Angola, used to start right behind Luanda's white sandy beaches.
A snap-in device feeds a small electric charge into a ring of conductive fibres that encircles the chest.
The second-biggest forest area, about a third of the total, is in the boreal, or taiga, biome: a belt of spruce, birch, fir and aspen that encircles the far northern hemisphere, mostly in Russia, Scandinavia, Finland, Canada and a small part of America.
He pushed for the development of the great orbital motorway that encircles London, and for the Channel Tunnel, which allows passengers to board a train at St Pancras and alight over the sea in Paris.
A newly navigable Arctic could cut thousands of miles off the journey between the Atlantic and the Pacific.The biggest beneficiary is likely to be Russia itself, which encircles almost half the Arctic Ocean.
Buffeted by green pressure groups, John Prescott, the environment secretary, over-ruled Gavin Strang, his junior minister, who had advised him that nearly all the projects, including a widening of a key section of the M25 motorway which encircles London, should be allowed to proceed.
There are, though, some esoteric renewables, such as fish oil converted into biodiesel.Far more promising is geothermal energy, since Alaska lies on the "ring of fire", a string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean.
As such, it resembles the barrier that encircles the Gaza Strip, which has proved pretty effective at preventing the infiltration of Palestinians from Gaza into Israel.Swerving and dippingBut there the resemblance ends.
The noseband, a strap of the bridle that encircles the horse's nose, may be either a cavesson, with a headpiece and rings for attaching a long training rein, or a noseband with a headstrap, only necessary if a standing martingale is used.
