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Having a soft spot for Mr. Shaw, I was thrilled to find a letter from him in the shelf lists of the Harvard University Archives. Luckily, he didn't let me down: 23rd November...
...until Thomson and his colleagues hopped aboard a plane this month for a closer view of the monster that they were truly shocked. The appearance of the iceberg was just one of several dramatic changes they could see along the Antarctic Peninsula. A part of the Larsen Ice Shelf--to which the iceberg had been attached--was broken up into rubble. And a huge tongue of ice that had connected the mainland with James Ross Island, just offshore, was gone. "For the first time in recorded history," says Thomson, "you could circumnavigate Ross Island. I was absolutely staggered by what...
Icebergs have broken away from Antarctica for millions of years; as snow accumulates, new ice is constantly squeezing the old out to sea. But the disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf seems to be the result of a relatively recent--and perhaps ominous--change in Antarctica's climate. Over the past 50 years the average temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has risen 2.5[degrees]C, to -3[degrees]C. That's a much greater increase than for anywhere else in the world. Not only are ice shelves turning to slush, but plant life is also exploding, with vegetation in some...
...artistic community. There, surrounded by walls of peeling paint and cooled by electric fans, he would listen to blues and soul in the evening, drinking gin and tonics or whiskey, perhaps staring at the apple slices in the giant jar of vodka or the bottled snake on the liquor shelf. When a wine bar opened next door, Leeson spent more and more time there. "It's like an old boys' club, where the guys smoke cigars in leather arm chairs," said Johnny Walker, the bartender at 5 Emerald Hill. Leeson began to learn to buy wine. One of his last...
...hottest testing grounds for consumer-related technology is the supermarket. Across the continent, food stores are erupting with radio and infrared data bursts that track pricing changes, inventory and customer buying patterns. Battery-powered shelf labels that receive instant price changes via radio transmitter are currently used in 25 Edwards Super Food Stores in Connecticut; more than 40 European stores employ a solar-powered version that receives pricing data via infrared. Several large food retail operators are exploring the use of ``smart cards'' and interactive kiosks to provide shoppers with information and keep track of the buying habits of their...