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...Afghanistan, CIA cargo planes were dropping warm-weather clothing, saddles and bales of hay for allied Afghan foot soldiers and cavalry. One cable that officers in the field sent back to Langley read, "Please send boots. The Taliban can hear our flip-flops." Says Kent Harrington, a former CIA station chief in Asia: "If a military special-operations soldier parachuted in with $3 million to buy armies, he'd have to have a C-5 cargo plane flying behind him with all the paperwork he'd need to dispense the money...
This situation is changing, however, as researchers begin systematically to probe Antarctica's ice, rock and sediments for clues. Their work is always arduous, often heroic and sometimes dangerous. This was brought home two weeks ago, when a helicopter shuttling supplies to a scientific field station crashed near McMurdo Sound, injuring...
...McMurdo Station is the sprawling complex of buildings from which the National Science Foundation (NSF) runs the U.S. Antarctic program, and right now McMurdo has a problem. Those big bergs that are hanging around the neighborhood have pinned up to 40 miles of sea ice next to shore, creating a daunting obstacle course for a nearby colony of Adelie penguins and a serious navigational hazard for people who service the station. The penguins are having trouble getting out to sea to feed--so much trouble that their numbers are in precipitous decline--and the NSF's supply ships are having...
...story. Many scientists think more than that was needed to put Antarctica in its present deep freeze. Among their favorite candidates: a reduction of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide. Supporting this idea are the provocative data scientists pulled from an ice core taken near the Russian station at Vostok. That ice, notes Marchant, contained bubbles of air that spanned the past 420,000 years, and the carbon dioxide in those bubbles tracked the temperature swings that mark the beginning and end of glacial cycles...
Benjamin Netanyahu bounced into the dirt lot outside another polling station in his armored Chevrolet Suburban. Israel's former Prime Minister climbed confidently out into a crowd of voters gathered in this blue-collar town hard by Tel Aviv's airport. A few began singing a Hasidic song: "Messiah, Messiah." In a stronghold of the Likud Party that Netanyahu used to head, that seemed no exaggeration. It is the hard-line nationalism of the Likud and its likely right-wing coalition partners that these people want, and Foreign Minister Netanyahu is the man they think best suited to sell...