Word: glacially
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Much like Silk himself, Benton’s film is a prisoner of its own ambitions; it falls victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. For most of its meandering minutes, The Human Stain remains as glacial as its scenery, too cool and too detached; it never packs a genuine emotional, much less social or political, punch. Even Farely’s bitter tears, shed as she mourns the wreck of her life, fail to generate much sympathy for her character. Perhaps it’s the uneven pacing; perhaps it’s the inherently...
...fear of the fallout, Seoul's favored unification formula is a glacial process of investment and economic exchanges that slowly develop the North's economy, leading to peace, then a common constitution and parliament, and ultimately formal unification. Even if the Kim regime suddenly collapses, the think tankers favor installing an interim government in Pyongyang until the North can catch up economically...
...state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their livestock, while one of the women invites us to dinner cooked over an open hearth before showing us to the small wooden outbuilding reserved for travelers...
...provocative data scientists pulled from an ice core taken near the Russian station at Vostok. That ice, notes Marchant, contained bubbles of air that spanned the past 420,000 years, and the carbon dioxide in those bubbles tracked the temperature swings that mark the beginning and end of glacial cycles...
...temperatures and frantic efforts to pump water out of the lake. But for Andreas Kääb, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, the Macugnaga incident is both a fascinating case study and an ominous sign of things to come. "Macugnaga presents most of the world's glacial hazards - ice avalanches, rockfalls, floods and a glacier advance that is very fast," he says. Scientists now believe that these hazards are occurring more frequently due to global warming, and that increased tourism has made mountain communities more vulnerable. Swiss studies indicate that Alpine glaciers have receded between...