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Freighter captains avoid them as potential catastrophes; climate scientists see them as a bellwether of global warming. But now marine biologists have a more positive take on the thousands of icebergs that have broken free from Antarctica in recent years. These frigid, starkly beautiful mountains of floating ice turn out to be bubbling hot spots of biological activity. And in theory, at least, they could help counteract the buildup of greenhouse gases that are heating the planet...
Many soldiers sensed a changed mood when they arrived at the Iraqi police headquarters in Karbala on Jan. 14. Some of the Iraqis the soldiers had been working with since the fall seemed unusually tense. One Iraqi police officer heckled some soldiers at the back gate in broken English, saying "U.S.A. bad, Iraq good" before throwing bread at them. Another aired an ominous warning. "Tomorrow," he said to soldiers standing guard outside, pounding a fist into his palm. "Tomorrow...
...decided on a headlining band that Jayne had discovered while playing with her kids in the park. (Yes, that’s right, I live in a crazy, empty fire station in the company of my housemate's two small children.) We cleared the garage of broken athletic equipment and age-old recycling and stashed the stroller upstairs (after we used it to cart in a case of Brooklyn Lager, of course). After considering the important factors of noise pollution and bedtime, we set doors to open at the admittedly un-rock n’ roll time...
...management's false concern and manipulative guile can be fun to trace out - like the plot in a bad TV show. But what's so repulsive about line-up is what they call the sick people in those rooms - the people on their backs with tubes in their noses, broken bones, cancers, strokes and infections, who can't dress or eat, or even empty their bladders without the physical help of those nurses. They call sick people "customers...
...Some soccer writers still lament what might have become the greatest European team of the 1990s had Yugoslavia not broken apart. But Yugoslavia did break apart, and Iraq might also, despite the feelings expressed there on Wednesday. Soccer cannot bridge political divides that are based not simply on whether Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds can get along and pass the ball to one another, but on how power and control of territory and resources is to be arranged among them. As beautiful a moment as Iraq's shared celebration may have been, the danger remains that they're less akin...