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Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
Usually, conspiracy theories surface where people are poorly educated and a rigorous independent press is lacking.
This decline coincided with a rise in the surface temperature of the neighboring Indian Ocean, a hint that the decline in rainfall is in fact part of the longer-term process of man-made global warming.
On the surface, the world's two largest economies have little to fear.
Reservations against FDI (as against anything foreign) can be found in all groups of countries, and politicians can bring them to the surface, resulting in protectionism.
Since 1900 the global temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and ocean surface waters has risen by 0.5-1 degree Celsius, and the prime suspect is atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2, which is second only to water vapor in its greenhouse effect.
This equilibrium is, in turn, determined by the temperature of ocean surface water.
But, beneath the surface, unease in the bilateral relationship persists, partly for historical reasons.
On the surface, Microsoft and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's police look like strange bedfellows.
Manmade global warming raises not only air temperatures, but sea-surface temperatures as well.
Indeed, there is volatility just beneath the surface.
On the surface, at least, the mini-revaluation hardly seems to have compromised China's ability to bend exchange markets to its will.
Paradoxically, these exercises were undertaken during a period when bilateral political and economic ties appeared on the surface to be at their highest point.
On the surface it appears that the United States apologized to China, but what commitments did the US assume, really?
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
Water flows on the surface and underground.
Nevertheless, strategic anxiety lurks below the surface, particularly in India.
On the surface, the numbers speak for themselves.
That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.
Higher sea-surface temperatures translate into more powerful storms in the world's oceans.
There were, of course, a number of subjects that remained just below the surface and were not discussed at this year's CDF.