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...Larsen B ice shelf showed what can happen when conditions warm. First, rising summer temperatures created meltwater ponds on the surface of the ice shelf, allowing water to pour into cracks. Then pressure exerted by the inflow of water deepened the cracks as relentlessly as a wedge splitting a log. Eventually the ice shelf fell to pieces, like an enormous tree reduced to a jumble of firewood...
...order to avoid the problems that plagued the October elections. In those elections for representatives, the administration did not allow council access to students’ Personal Identification Numbers. This posed a problem and delayed the elections because the online voting system the council had developed required that students log in with their PINs before casting ballots...
...improving economy offsetting modestly higher mortgage interest rates as the year progresses," said David Lereah, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors. Lereah forecasts GDP growth of between 2.7 percent and 3.1 percent (depending on whether Bush gets his stimulus package) and still expects the housing market to log its second-best year ever - behind, of course, 2002. Even the prospect of a big war-and-a-tax-cut budget deficit shouldn't nudge interest rates prohibitively high, as long as the war doesn't take much longer (or cost much more) than the bond markets have already anticipated...
...million board feet of timber from Sequoia National Monument. Although some ecologists say it's a necessary treatment for forests that will wither without resuscitation, from the mouths of Bush allies, it smells rotten to many environmentalists. "It seems as if they've been looking for an opportunity to log," says Jenkins, "and the fires have suddenly handed them a way to get around the usual restrictions...
About three weeks ago, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) began an investigation unlike any other in its history. It didn’t involve Yard robberies or disorderly conduct at Lamont—it wasn’t even listed in the police log...