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Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking The Ice | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...These are the only people I’ve seen using a shovel instead of a rope to get out of a hole,” he quipped...

Author: By Ebonie D. Hazle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Announcing Bid for Presidency, Sharpton Assails Traditional Parties | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...garbage can. Line it if you are sanitation-conscious. Mix all ingredients in the garbage can. Ice to taste. Mix with a shovel or similarly large object...

Author: By Alice O. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky-Drink - Special 2X edition! | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...form of employment, because it's such miserable work. That's how you tell a rookie: if they actually think the writing's fun. I guess it is for the first one or two, but after that it just becomes miserable work, like digging in the dirt with a shovel. But it's something you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tom Clancy | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...resigns. But these are trifles - even I, at times, intend to make love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

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