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What jump-started the glaciers' outflow isn't precisely clear, but scientists point to two likely triggers. The first, says Julian Dowdeswell of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, is the breakup of ice "tongues" that reach out into the sea at the glaciers' leading edges. It's likely, he says, that removing that barrier allowed the glaciers to flow more freely. The second is that ice on the glaciers' surfaces has melted at a record rate in two of the past four years. "Some of that water," says Dowdeswell, "presumably percolates down through crevasses," lubricating...
...massive outflows of ice. In Antarctica, which has one ice sheet the size of Greenland's and another nearly 10 times as large, the same sort of leverage could eventually come into play, with even greater consequences. Yet another tipping point could come as ice sheets shrink and the polar caps start absorbing rather than reflecting energy from...
...Kevin FergusonI’ve never been stranded on an island, so I can’t speak from personal experience, but I’m positive that it makes you rather randy. My proof, obviously, derives from the plethora of couples on this polar bear-filled, monster-infested island. I know most people would point to Kate or Jack, or Kate and Sawyer as a hot and heavy example of the primo couple. Well, those people are wrong. Top 5 “Lost” Couples5. Bernard and Rose: Was it not the most wonderful moment in television...
...HAVEN, Conn.—They entered the weekend as polar opposites: Harvard floating atop the conference standings and Yale, still winless in the ECAC, mired at its cellar. “But I think you can pretty much throw the records out when these two play,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 after the Bulldogs beat No. 14 Harvard 4-3 yesterday at Ingalls Rink. “Great rivalry, great tradition.” Of course, we know all this already. The centuries of enmity and the inexhaustible competition for bragging rights?...
...chandeliers into the leopard-print VIP room. They're in search of a $23,200 shimmering Swarovski crystal?covered dress that's been photographed in all the fashion magazines. The problem is, the dress has been sold. Addis slides open a leopard-print panel to display a full-length, polar-white Mongolian lamb coat ($10,260) that might please instead. No, no, they want the dress. He hands them off to the manager...