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ANTARCTICA Now You See It, Now You Don't An ice shelf 200 m thick, 3,250 sq km in extent and weighing 500 billion tons broke up in less than a month. Though average Antarctic peninsula temperatures have risen by 2.5C in the last 50 years, the eastern Larsen B shelf crumbled into small icebergs far faster than expected. The shelf was a huge extension into the water of the ice sheets covering the land mass. It was one of five that have been shrinking owing to climate change. An iceberg half the size of Cyprus broke...
UNITED STATES Internet Arrests Police operations in the U.S. and Europe broke up two major Internet pornography rings. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the success of Operation Candyman, which resulted in charges of trading graphic sexual images of children against 86 people, including a police officer, a Catholic priest and a school bus driver. German police uncovered a worldwide Internet pedophile ring, which resulted in arrests of 12 men in 10 countries...
...close alliance with the U.S. It will certainly be the start of Washington's headaches. These include a corrupt system that has allegedly protected terrorists, smugglers and drug lords, and a regime that would love to use the new force against Abkhazia, the Russian-protected Black Sea region that broke away in 1993. Not to mention the tough, unfriendly inhabitants of Pankisi...
...after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit his nine-year-old son. Unknown assailants savagely beat him, fracturing his skull with steel bars and plunging knives into both legs. Today a jagged red scar encircles his head like a crown. That attack broke the labor movement in Henan. Today, just one factory in the province remains occupied by workers...
...ain’t broke, why fix it?” Mellone said...