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...margaritas, but I could have sworn the television monitors were displaying swirling images of circuit boards and modems as a crowd of systems engineers and desktop-support managers moshed drunkenly a floor below me. I was at The Beach, but hundreds of miles away from the ocean, alas -- landlocked and gridlocked for a week in Las Vegas for Comdex...
...more dangerous. Scientists have found that the sheet of ice covering earth's northernmost area has become forty percent thinner over the past four decades -- possibly the result of global warming. But don't head for the mountains just yet. Since the melting came from ice already in the ocean, global water levels will remain roughly the same. While the melting has been linked to changing wind patterns around the Arctic, researchers aren't sure whether this is a direct result of global warming. Still, the news does reflect several possibly scary trends. "We know that the amount of greenhouse...
There may be nothing untoward about a prayer muttered in the cockpit of a plane about to plunge headlong into the ocean. But given the history - amplified, and sometimes simplified, by the media and the movies - of terrorists claiming to be inspired by Islam, it could also signal a motive for what is now suspected of having been the criminal downing of EgyptAir Flight 990. The NTSB Tuesday was set to hand over the investigation of the crash to the FBI, believing that the final cockpit conversations on the Boeing 767's voice-data recorder indicate that a crew member...
Canada's 90 universities, all publicly funded, offer degree programs similar to those available at U.S. schools. The University of Toronto, for example, lists 300 separate degree programs. Many institutions also claim renowned or unusual specializations, such as polar studies at Trent; ocean science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, conflict resolution at the University of Winnipeg, and petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta...
...Evidence from the first "black box" had established that the Boeing 767's engines were turned off at 33,000 feet, precipitating a plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged into the ocean. That shifted the locus of the investigation - and most conspiratorial conjecture - to the cockpit, and the factors that might have prompted the crew to turn off the engines. But the "black box" tape of the pilot and copilot's last conversation proved disappointing: "Something happens. Alarms go off. Both work...