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...Maldives have remained the same over time. Twenty thousand years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, says Abdulla Naseer, director of the Marine Research Center in Malé, the Maldives were not the low-lying coral islands we see today. Due to frigid ocean temperatures and vast amounts of water locked up as ice, sea levels were some 400 ft. lower then, and the reef crests loomed above the sea's surface as sheer-sided limestone pinnacles. Then, as the earth warmed and the ice melted, the rising ocean overtopped these pinnacles, providing new surfaces for the corals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Waters Are Rising | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Harvard scrounged up a tally in the top of the fifth on a hit and a two-base throwing error, but could not avoid the mercy rule in the soggy, frigid nightcap...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Loses Two in Boston | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

...frigid November morning. Spirits were high, beer was on tap, and victory was in the air. But little did we know that our excitement spelled horror for the Boston Police Department (BPD). It was Harvard-Yale—the day of The Game. And it was the catalyst for a new “crack-down” on drinking, a reinvigoration of the puritanical principles that are the bane of every student’s existence...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Operation Don’t-Whiz-on-the-Field | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...their most pathetic performance since Game 3 of last year’s ALCS, but the bleacher fanatics kept it interesting to the frigid end. See you guys in Boston next week—you’re welcome anytime...

Author: By Stewart H. Hauser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TAKE IT TO THE HAUS: One Fan’s Journey Over to the Other Side | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

Space, he said, is a much “cleaner” environment for astrophysical observation because infrared light from extrasolar planets is easier to detect when frigid temperatures lessen interfering emissions from other sources...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Astronomers View New Planets | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

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