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...after escaping armed kidnappers who took him and seven other foreigners hostage on Sept. 12. Scott,19, who evaded his captors by leaping down a ravine, was found by Indian tribespeople. The government has blamed one of the rebel groups operating in the area for the kidnapping. The Big Thaw CANADA Scientists from the University of Alaska and Quebec's Laval University announced that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest in the Arctic - has broken up. The researchers said this was proof the process of climate change is accelerating in the Arctic. The ice shelf used...
Entering the spring, the team was concerned about the late thaw of the Charles River, which kept Harvard’s boats out of the water until late into the season. That winter rust may have contributed to the team’s slow start to the spring...
...given recent temperatures, the Charles seems unlikely to thaw anytime soon. As a result, the Harvard women will have to put the lessons learned from their time on the water to good use next weekend at the St. Mary’s Womens Regatta...
With the waters of the Charles still frozen prior to the spring thaw, the Harvard men’s and Radcliffe women’s crew teams turned to a surprising venue for their first event of the year: the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston...
...answer, as two California geologists finally explained in a paper that appeared in Science last week: it's nothing more complicated than freezing and thawing--the same process that causes roads to buckle in developed parts of the world. According to lead author Mark Kessler, it all starts with a field strewn randomly with rocks lying on top of soil. No field is perfectly flat, of course, and when the soil freezes in winter, any slight bump expands, pushing the rocks up and to the side. When things thaw out, though, the bump subsides straight down, so the rocks stay...