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...cryptographic code machines - could be kept from prying eyes by smashing it with hammers and hatchets aboard the aircraft. Or it may have been pushed out of the plane's cargo door in weighted bags, in sort of a "Sailors Meet the Sopranos" moment, while still over the ocean, Navy officials say. Additional papers and tapes could have been destroyed, probably after the plane was on the ground, by stuffing them into special containers and then detonating special destructive grenades inside them...
...contrast, if melting ice caps dilute the salt content of the sea, major ocean currents like the Gulf Stream could slow or even stop, and so would their warming effects on northern regions. More snowfall reflecting more sunlight back into space could actually cause a net cooling. Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another...
...century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported, melting ice caps could raise global sea levels by as much as 88 cm. But last week the Atlantic Ocean seemed to be just growing wider. After U.S. President George W. Bush bluntly rejected any American role in the gargantuan, decade-long effort to forge an international agreement to slow global warming, advocates of the Kyoto Protocol in Europe reacted with howls of protest and betrayal...
...Bullets tore into the back of the plane's engineer as he tried to help the two pilots get the shuddering plane under control; he died on the spot. Another blast killed a stewardess. Barely two minutes after the attack began, Blown wrestled the burning DC-4 onto the ocean surface. Miraculously, a dinghy appeared among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British administration that no military aircraft were to approach the accident scene. The message was acknowledged but ignored. That...
...many folks in Seattle were buying that. In the past decade, scores of companies have set up shop in Starbucksland for its highly educated work force, tons of cultural and sports offerings, and the whole package cloaked in a magnificent natural setting of forest, mountain and ocean. So what if it rains...