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...fiance Michael Colovos. Habitual jeans' subtle washes and tailored details such as welt pockets and bound buttonholes have become the overnight favorites of models like Gisele Bundchen and Carolyn Murphy. The jeans are so hot that Barney's and Fred Segal can't keep them on the shelf, and they are rumored to have Levi's creative team in a tizzy. Of course, Levi's is a 130-year-old multibillion-dollar global brand, and Habitual is a shoestring outfit based in a studio in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. "A lot of innovation credit is being given...
Sooner or later the big bergs will move off and break up. What they will leave behind is a vague sense of menace. For the parent of the big bergs, the Ross Ice Shelf, is a floating extension of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which, for the past 10,000 years, has been slowly slipping into the sea. Should that ice sheet start a more rapid slide, it would trigger a lot more havoc than a few hulking icebergs...
...weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross Ice Shelf like frozen rivers...
Finally, there is the question of the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf itself. Ice shelves, it turns out, are important to ice sheets for a number of reasons. Among other things, they serve as buffers against currents and wave action and as buttresses that provide structural support. In fact, the absence of ice shelves may be the reason that glaciers in the remote Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica are speeding up their transport of ice to the sea. Earlier this year, in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen B ice shelf showed what can happen when conditions warm. First...
...encountered in Edgar R. Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there moved into consulting for multinational corporations trying to get into China. His romance with the country deepened with his marriage to the daughter of a Chinese general?a relationship that...