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with Anu Gargneuston
PRONUNCIATION:
(NOO-ston, NYOO-)
MEANING:
noun:
The aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that inhabit the surface of
a body of water.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek neuston (swimming), from nein to (swim).
USAGE:
"In the 1970s, when [Jacques Cousteau] joined Soviet scientists studying
neuston, minute organisms in the upper layers of the ocean, the researchers
could not get clean samples."Marlise Simons; Jacques Cousteau's Righteous Crusade; The New York Times; Feb 13, 1994. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
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