The water park is entirely artificial and very explicitly engineered — it's about control, ingenuity, containment, convenience: the harnessing of an elemental force entirely for our enjoyment.
All this may be blocking the attempt to bring down record-high unemployment, revitalise the economy and fit Germany into the harness of a single European currency.
For one, Mr. McIntyre has been persuaded to return to performing, fitting his 6-foot-6-inch body into the harness of a 14-foot-tall puppet for "Sherpa," about an explorer haunted by a ghost.
Near the tiny farming villages of Rashwan and Abu Mishfa in the Nile Delta – the kind of villages where you might see a girl tugging on the harness of a recalcitrant water buffalo as she leads it out to graze, or a mule-drawn cart loaded with animal feed – is a scrappy lake, the haunt of innumerable egrets.
In Palestine, it naturally took on an additional dimension - the harnessing of religion, as an ideology and a frame for action, to the national struggle.
It is a trend marked by changing lifestyles, greater spending power, more recreational time, the harnessing of technology and a new political assertiveness and cultural self-confidence.
It's the Hope message that Microsoft launched at the turn of the century with its Web Services initiative: the harnessing of XML as a unification of proprietary remote procedure calls and data streams under the eXtensible banner.
In one of his many books, Do I Come Here Often?, he gives credit for his physical transformation and the harnessing of his aggression, to a teacher - a Mr Pepperman - who introduced him to weightlifting.
From a technical point of view, the harnessing of electric power exerted a greater influence on stage design and production techniques than any other single invention.
