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...Antarctic's new breakaway republic -- a 2,751-square-mile slab of ice that detached from the Ronne Ice Shelf, in the southern Weddell Sea -- was announced by the National Ice Center on Thursday. Experts consider the ice on Antarctica to be quite stable, but the iceberg -- the largest recorded since 1987 -- should serve as a big reminder that global warming is still an issue with potential consequences far beyond the thermometer, says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt...
...male juvenile reports that he was assaulted by a 12-year-old female known to him while he was playing with friends in a park. The suspect allegedly punched the victim in the left eye, bit his right upper arm and threatened to slab him. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical attention...
There's still an aerial gunnery and a Navy SEALs' training ground nearby, and nothing makes those Joes happier than blowing things up day and night. There's no running water or sewage system; an Imperial County official calls Slab City an environmental nightmare. The county wants to regulate the 640 acres and charge squatters a fee, but the land belongs to the state, which would love to dump it but can't find a sucker...
...Slab City endures, with its misfits, coots, dropouts and loners, most of them pensioners and all of them celebrating freedom, the religion of the desert, and, best of all, free rent...
Leonard Knight, 66, has found heaven, picking Hank Williams tunes on his guitar, pumping his rickety bike into Niland and laying down coat after coat of paint on his hillside GOD IS LOVE shrine, a 14-year project at the entrance to Slab City...