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...crazy angles and houses sinking up to their window sashes as the ground liquefies. In parts of the wilderness, the signal is more clear: wetlands, ponds and grasslands have replaced forests, and moose have moved in as caribou have moved out. On the Mackenzie River delta in Canada's Northwest Territories, Arctic-savvy Inuit inhabitants have watched with dismay as warming ground melted the traditional freezers they cut into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening for the coastline in much of the north; where thawing has occurred, wave action has caused severe erosion. Some coastal Inuit villages...
ARKANSAS Clinton's old home is far more Republican now. Seniors and blacks are behind Gore, but voters 44 and younger and in the conservative northwest corner of the state back Bush...
These are smaller prizes, by and large, but they're up for grabs. Bush thinks "compassion" will work in the Northwest, while Gore tries to win back the Clinton South...
...York and California, which have three more electoral votes than all the Bush states west of the Mississippi. So the most important territory is the Midwest, where Bush's lead tends to fall within the margin of error. Bush is targeting several other states in the South and the Northwest that have voted for Clinton but have yet to embrace Gore. For Gore, winning the battleground states means solidifying his base--especially union voters considering Ralph Nader--and attracting moderates. Gore has a shot: some polls estimate as many as half the voters are undecided...
...Kursk had successfully completed a torpedo-firing run and was preparing for another. Lyachin, 45, one of Russia's most experienced submarine officers, radioed the task-force commander for permission to fire. The transmission was monitored by the American surveillance ship U.S.N.S. Loyal, lurking about 186 miles west-northwest of the Kursk, as was the commander's "permission granted." But instead of the sounds of torpedoes being blown from launch tubes, sonar operators aboard U.S. submarines working with the Loyal heard two explosions, one short and sharp, the second an enormous, thundering boom. A Norwegian seismic institute also recorded...