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...heavy enough, it starts to flow like an extremely viscous fluid, its uphill section always advancing, its end, or terminus, moving forward or back, depending on factors like how fast the terminus melts or breaks off into the sea. Although glaciologists can describe a glacier's movements and predict its effects, they cannot explain why the Hubbard Glacier or any of the 15 or so smaller frozen masses that are also surging in the Yakutat area -- albeit harmlessly -- began to speed up, while others nearby have slowed. Some factors scientists think cause glaciers to advance and retreat: the amount...
...editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine, takes us into the international art arena, where a masterpiece has come up for auction. On the block is the Marchesa Odescalchi, a sexy full-length portrait by the 17th century Spanish master Diego Velasquez of his alleged mistress. Experts predict that the portrait will bring at least $11 million, an auction record for a single painting. Among the main competitors in the battle for the naked marchesa are two archrival museums, Washington's National Gallery and New York City's Metropolitan. The National is represented by its director, Andrew Foster -- young, rich, dashing...
...whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify with a killer's motives and thus predict his next move. But Will has much to lose as well: a wife, a son, a family life just like those the psycho loves to explode. And thanks to a tip from another serial killer (Brian Cox), the psycho has Will's home address...
...they pay me . . ." fumed Dorsett, whose career rushing record is 10,832 yds., sixth highest in N.F.L. history. "I can be a very disruptive force." Dorsett, whose own contract reportedly calls for $9.65 million over 27 years, later withdrew his threats and prepared to join Walker in what observers predict will be a dream backfield...
...nowhere near a low enough level to solve the trade-deficit problem." Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University, is more sanguine. He comments, "I have no problem believing that the export surge is coming." Not surprisingly, neither Meltzer nor anyone else is willing to predict the precise timetable for a turnaround in the balance of trade...