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After a quarter-century with the British Antarctic Survey, Mike Thomson is not easily impressed by icebergs. But the one that showed up in satellite photos earlier this year was the biggest he'd seen in years. Floating slowly out to sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, the frozen slab was about 600 ft. thick, 23 miles wide and 48 miles long. It was a megaberg roughly the size of Luxembourg...
...might not even leave Antarctica. On the other hand, it may not be the only new peril in southern waters. Says Thomson: "The ice adjacent to where the iceberg broke away has big north-south cracks--we could see these when we flew over." So another country-size slab of ice could be heading out to sea at just about any time...
...Venice, California, with its bizarre assortment of skaters, body builders and semi-nude exhibitionists crowding the famed boardwalk, the building at 340 Main Street is an attention grabber. The three-story edifice, headquarters of the Chiat/Day advertising agency, is wrapped in brick beams and topped by a concrete slab, and its entrance is straddled by a pair of 100- ft.-tall black binoculars. Inside, the building is even more remarkable. Gone are the choice corner offices where agency executives once held forth, the cubicles once occupied by their secretaries, the once ubiquitous rows of filing cabinets. Executive chairs have been...
Holworthy stands at the north end of the Yard, a barren and faceless brick slab. Its exterior lacks the subtle intricacies of the detailed buildings around it. What it does boast is a prime location, next to the main thoroughfare to the Science Center and Memorial Hall...
...Brooks' last grab for a slab of bacon proved too much for his sated constituency. After he managed to get $10 million for the Jack Brooks Criminal Justice Center at Brooks' alma mater Lamar College slipped into the crime bill, voters saw pork for the bad financial bargain it is -- two dollars in federal taxes for every one that might come back to the district in the form of pork. Stockman, who had been trounced by Brooks in 1992, saw his chance and tried again. Some Republicans in Texas ignored him as a wild man. (Stockman unfurled posters that said...