Word: icing
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...global warming we need to fight, or global cooling? That's if we humans influence the climate at all, an open question. Recent years have seen global average temperatures leveling off or declining. For most of the past 2.5 million years, the Earth has been in the grip of ice ages, broken by relatively short warm periods lasting 10,000 to 15,000 years. We are lucky to live in such a period. Dietrich E.Koelle, Germany...
...coin flip that decided whose name would come first when brothers-in-law Irvine Robbins and Burton Baskin combined their ice cream shops to found Baskin-Robbins, now a global chain with more than 5,800 franchises. Newly out of the military, Robbins opened his first store in Glendale, Calif., in 1945 with money that he'd saved from his Bar Mitzvah. Throughout his career, he was an adept salesman, never missing an opportunity; for the Beatles' 1964 arrival in the U.S., Robbins created the flavor Beatle Nut in just five days...
...question is whether the polar bear is actually in enough danger to warrant official government protection. Last year, a study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) concluded that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could disappear in the next 50 years if Arctic sea ice continues to evaporate at its current rate - sea ice is essential for polar bears, serving as the platforms from which they hunt. Similar discussion is ongoing in Canada, where two-thirds of the world's estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears reside. Last week, a Canadian scientific committee ruled that...
...those who oppose listing the polar bear, including several western Senators, say that the species does in fact appear to be O.K. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, calls sea ice studies such as the one run by USGS a "classic case of reality versus unproven computer models." In fact, he says, the number of polar bears has increased over the past half-century as a result of initiatives like the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, which sharply curtailed bear hunting; he thinks declaring the animal endangered...
...hardest one was definitely the ice. The reason wasn't just that the ice was continually dripping onto my head and shoulders for the entire three days and three nights. I didn't get any sleep, and the sleep deprivation starts to tweak your brain. So I went into an altered mental state and then went into hallucinations, and it really became very, very difficult. That was one I know I could never do again. Towards the middle of it, I knew it was going to be unbearable. [In comparison] the coffin was like a vacation. That...