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What jump-started the glaciers' outflow isn't precisely clear, but scientists point to two likely triggers. The first, says Julian Dowdeswell of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, is the breakup of ice "tongues" that reach out into the sea at the glaciers' leading edges. It's likely, he says, that removing that barrier allowed the glaciers to flow more freely. The second is that ice on the glaciers' surfaces has melted at a record rate in two of the past four years. "Some of that water," says Dowdeswell, "presumably percolates down through crevasses," lubricating...
...split up the Time Warner media empire (which includes Time Inc., publisher of this magazine). But Icahn could not win the support of key shareholders, who balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons and Icahn talked about striking a deal, but the talks stumbled after Parsons declined to appoint two of Icahn's handpicked directors. Icahn scaled back that demand, and the two finally reached a truce last week." I don't think shareholders were ready to give me the keys," Icahn told...
Admittedly I might be less susceptible to Dr. P.'s magnetism were I not still smarting over a bad breakup with my old pediatricians. It's not that my exes were incompetent or unprofessional (although I could have done without the multi-hour waits). It's more that they treated me and my husband with the sort of arrogance and unresponsiveness that, upon consulting with other moms, I'm discovering is not uncommon in parent-ped relationships...
...course is not self-selecting, meaning that it is not only happy people that take the course,” he writes in an e-mail. “I’d say more than half [are] people who are struggling with depression, fighting alcoholism, dealing with a breakup, coping with a disease...
Frank, the 12-year-old in The Squid and the Whale, gets a double dose of bad luck. The breakup of his parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...