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...what Thompson had in mind when he won a scholarship to West Virginia's Marshall University, majored in geology, then enrolled at Ohio State with the intention of becoming a coal geologist. But while working on his master's degree, he took a research job that put him in contact with the first ice core ever retrieved from Antarctica. To his surprise, he became entranced with the idea of reconstructing Earth's climate history from the dust particles, pollen grains and subtle geochemical shifts trapped in the core's layers...
...Meanwhile, some independent Russian and foreign experts believe that the explosion resulted from a malfunction in a practice torpedo's engine, propelled with concentrated hydrogen peroxide fuel, or HTP. Accidentally leaked HTP could have come in contact with silver or other metals present in the alloys used in submarine-building, they say, potentially resulting in a powerful explosion. This blast could then have detonated all or some of the Kursk's other torpedoes, causing the second powerful explosion that actually sank the state-of-the art nuclear cruiser a year...
...redemption are the narcotic Clinton craves, the high that makes the Gennifer Flowers, Whitewater, Monica and Marc Rich valleys a necessary part of life. Where better to feel the love than the city of second acts, a place so crowded and alive that his bottomless need for human contact can be satisfied every time he walks down the street? Jackie Onassis went there because the locals are blase about celebrity; Clinton went for the ones who aren't blase, who pay the high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure...
...redemption are the narcotic Clinton craves, the high that makes the Gennifer Flowers, Whitewater, Monica and Marc Rich valleys a necessary part of life. Where better to feel the love than the city of second acts, a place so crowded and alive that his bottomless need for human contact can be satisfied every time he walks down the street? Jackie Onassis went there because the locals are blase about celebrity; Clinton went for the ones who aren't blase, who pay the high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure...
...TIME: Have you been in contact with Wahid? Megawati: No. But I was informed by his doctors that he planned to go abroad...