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...Science deserve much of the credit. Retired meteorologist Len van Burgel's task was to provide wind data from that long-ago November to help trace where debris from the Kormoran, found drifting days after the battle, could have come from. With no ocean wind reports available from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely...
...Internet speed. But he adds the disclaimer that “you shouldn’t expect to have the speed and capacity that an industrial business would have.”Selsby acknowledges the recent impracticability of “plugging in,” citing an unexpected drift towards wireless-only usage, with 91 percent of the class of 2010—compared to 70 percent of the class of 2007—using Harvard wireless. “Wireless wasn’t intended to replace wired when it was made, so as such it wasn?...
...Some observers are looking for what one insider calls the Texas two-step: a cordial embrace of Bush by the candidate, combined with trash talk behind the scenes by campaign staff. Then the question is, do the two men just drift apart, like Gore and Clinton, or does McCain draw a sharp line. Former Bush advisor Dan Bartlett says there'll be sufficient natural distance between the two thanks to the positions McCain has taken on issues like Iraq or climate change. "It's not going to be a jolt in the campaign as opposed to a continuum," Bartlett says...
...administrators who filled the void, projects like the Dubai Healthcare City—a sprawling partnership between HMI and the Government of Dubai—signalled a worrisome drift in the subsidiary’s mission...
...MISSION DRIFT...