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...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...
...most important is the balance between the rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own 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...
With the extra day of rest, another post-exam slide would be unacceptable for the Crimson, as Harvard needs a strong showing both tonight and in the Beanpot to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and perhaps the regular-season ECAC crown...
Bush, by contrast, has learned to stand oblique to the current of public opinion on the environment, allowing criticism to slide off his back. His lieutenants in Interior, Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have quietly focused on the regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental...
...Jobs' boldest move was to aim two slingshots directly at Bill Gates. Safari is a speedy, free Web browser with a Google toolbar; it leaves Mac owners few reasons to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (half a million have already tried an early version). And Keynote, a $99 slide-show program built for Jobs' own presentations, should steal a few million converts from Microsoft PowerPoint. Sometimes the smaller guy has a big advantage...