Word: slush
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...North and South poles that those steambath conditions are felt particularly acutely, with glaciers and ice caps crumbling to slush. Once the thaw begins, a number of mechanisms kick in to keep it going. Greenland is a vivid example. Late last year, glaciologist Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Pannir Kanagaratnam, a research assistant professor at the University of Kansas, analyzed data from Canadian and European satellites and found that Greenland ice is not just melting but doing so more than twice as fast, with 53 cu. mi. draining away into the sea last year...
...Berkowitz, a second year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was the clear standout. His performance of the Adagio movement from Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 23” was novel in all the best ways. Foregoing the sumptuous melodic slush favored by many pianists who look for any available opportunity to jerk Romantic tears from a sympathetic audience, Berkowitz crafted lines that were detached, but wrenchingly so. Playing like the person who learns of the death of a loved one and does not know how to tell the rest...
...Liberals have only themselves to blame for losing the upper hand. For the past two years, they have been dogged by revelations that a federal program was manipulated to create a Liberal-friendly slush fund and kickback scheme in the province of Quebec. A Nov. 1 report by a national commission exonerated Prime Minister Martin, but the scandal has left a lingering stench. "I'm tired of being screwed by the Liberals," says Gerry Gagn, 47, a lifelong Liberal supporter from Low, Que., in a now common refrain...
...part of the world where people can be killed for trinkets, the astronomical U.S. bounty on Zawahiri - plus whatever the CIA is offering from its discretionary slush fund - has no doubt inspired countless bounty hunters and snitches peddling dubious information. It's too soon to say whether the tip that caused the U.S. to target a benighted village in northwest Pakistan was real or just another false lead. In fact, the identities of those who died in the strike may never be established to the satisfaction of the U.S., given the difficulties of obtaining unbiased witness accounts and the even...
...happen? Politicians neglected to put money into pension plans, made poor investments, handed out extraordinarily generous retirement packages and gave special treatment to their fellow politicians. As San Diego city attorney Mike Aguirre put it, "What has happened is that the pension plan has somewhat become a personal-benefit slush fund for council members and senior officials." Not only did high-ranking San Diego officials give themselves preferential treatment for their pensions, they also distributed outsize benefits to city workers. A department director with 39 years of service collects $148,000 a year for life; an assistant port director with...