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Some of the nearer offshore cays also offer good opportunities: Coffin Island off the southern coast near Guánica and Cat Island off of La Parguera still have clear waters; both are accessible via a short boat trip.
In 1917 self-determination in India seemed nearer when London announced its plan for “the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the (British) Empire. ”
The result is that, when the frequency of sound is high, it will produce a peak of vibration near the oval window (Figure 1A); if the frequency is low, the peak of vibration will be nearer the far (apical) end of the cochlea [10].
As impeachment draws nearer, the White House and congressional Democrats have been escalating their rhetoric along these lines.
Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.