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...until Thomson and his colleagues hopped aboard a plane this month for a closer view of the monster that they were truly shocked. The appearance of the iceberg was just one of several dramatic changes they could see along the Antarctic Peninsula. A part of the Larsen Ice Shelf--to which the iceberg had been attached--was broken up into rubble. And a huge tongue of ice that had connected the mainland with James Ross Island, just offshore, was gone. "For the first time in recorded history," says Thomson, "you could circumnavigate Ross Island. I was absolutely staggered by what...
Whether or not the new iceberg is a harbinger of the greenhouse effect, it is clearly a hazard for ships plying the southern seas, and so satellites and planes will keep a careful watch on it. No one can say precisely what will happen to the ice, and a similar event in 1986 doesn't offer much of a precedent. At that time three megabergs broke loose into Antarctic waters, each bigger than this year's. Two grounded themselves in shallow waters, and are still there. The third went north, with some of it actually reaching the Tropics before melting...
...good return and the political scene is calm and controlled. But at the first sign of civil unrest, the investments will stop and moneys will be pulled out. If Zedillo wants foreign investors to return to his country, he had better take a close look at the ``iceberg'' left him by previous administrations and figure out what to do about...
...just the tuition required to attend classes, or the fees for room and board, or the expenditures at the Coop. That's only the tip of the iceberg...
...people are deserving of this but only people on the underwater tip of the iceberg are nominated," Abrahams said...