Word: antarctica
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Like everything else in Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf is outsize, a chunk of frozen water bigger than Texas jutting off a continent that is half again as large as the U.S. It is deeply mysterious, for its ice, like the ice that covers the rest of Antarctica, conceals far more than it reveals. Three years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf started calving icebergs so big that they invited comparison with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and some of these bergs--including C-19, which broke off the shelf last May--lurk nearby, provoking consternation and wonder...
...sought to monitor Iraq. On North Korea, he says, it was his IAEA that blew the whistle on Pyongyang's weapons program back in 1994. Blix is also quick to point out that once nominated for the UNMOVIC job - after Kofi Annan had tracked him down on holiday in Antarctica - he was the U.N. Security Council's unanimous choice. The hawks still complain about Blix, but the White House has quietly set about working with him, summoning him for consultation three times in as many weeks before he left for Iraq. Trained in law, Blix views his assignment through...
...actually as a compromise appointment in 2000, when Iraq rejected the Washington-backed Rolf Ekeus to replace Richard Butler, the abrasive Australian whose confrontational tactics had more than once precipitated crises. His reported reluctance to take the job couldn't have been more graphic - Blix was on vacation in Antarctica when Kofi Annan called to recruit...
...South Korea's Prime Minister-designate, said the rail links would allow the two Koreas to build a "single economic community," reviving the North's ailing economy and helping the way to reunification of the two states. EARTH Upside Downside The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica will start shrinking in 2005 and close by 2050, Australian government scientists predicted. Researchers in Tasmania said the level of ozone-depleting chlorine in the atmosphere was falling because of the ban on using chlorofluorocarbons in refrigerators and air conditioners. Meanwhile in the U.K., the government's Energy Saving Trust announced that...
...Diego-based Diversa Corp. is one of the most active prospectors. The company has searched for useful microbes at geothermal and hydrothermal vents, in acidic soils and alkaline springs, in marine sediments, at industrial sites and all over Antarctica, among other places. "Eventually," says Diversa CEO Jay Short, "we want to sample every portion of the globe." Any profits will be shared with the country of origin...