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...helicopter heads out over McMurdo Sound, crossing a monotonous expanse of sea ice broken only by a smattering of icebergs and occasional clusters of Weddell seals. At last, off to one side, you see it: the Ross Ice Shelf, a mesmerizing expanse of white that stretches to the horizon and beyond. Wreathed in ice fog, the ice shelf takes on the haziness of a mirage. Yet it is all too substantial. Its surface ripples with undulating pressure ridges and solid, wind-hewn waves called sastrugi that move with the ice as it flows inexorably toward...
Like everything else in Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf is outsize, a chunk of frozen water bigger than Texas jutting off a continent that is half again as large as the U.S. It is deeply mysterious, for its ice, like the ice that covers the rest of Antarctica, conceals far more than it reveals. Three years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf started calving icebergs so big that they invited comparison with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and some of these bergs--including C-19, which broke off the shelf last May--lurk nearby, provoking consternation and wonder...
...learning that pension liabilities can reduce or even eliminate the profits of the world's largest corporations. Fortunately for the employees involved, companies do not have to plug the holes overnight. The shortfalls are in obligations that stretch far into the future. "We have years to address this," says Ross Cook, a spokesman for British Telecommunications (BT), a company whose pension-fund deficit is currently calculated at about $2.63 billion. But experts say the shortfalls should raise alarms about the long-term solvency of some schemes, and serve as a red flag to funds that continue to invest heavily...
...Ross said student volunteers are cooperating with the safety improvements, despite the transportation difficulties they create...
While PBHA is the only student group with its own vehicles, the Athletic Department also has 15-passenger vans, Ross said. The athletic department removed seats in 15-passenger vehicles in early September and is still in the process of getting rid of the large vans permanently, she said...