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...TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson has been watching the investigation, and weighs in on the recent developments...
...Thompson in three games, and Kristin Wadhwa and Ashley Harmeling also managed decisive victories...
...hope Ernest Hemingway, wherever he is, has a nice stiff drink - he's going to need one when he hears this news: The celebrated snows that drape the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming pace. According to researcher Lonnie Thompson, global warming is gradually erasing the blinding white cover, leaving instead a dull patina of rock. "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so," Thompson told the Associated Press...
...Thompson, operating out of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, found that 82 percent of Kilimanjaro's icecap melted between 1912 and 2000. He also found that the rate of disintegration may be speeding up; Thompson's measurements show one spot on the mountain's icecap lost roughly a yard of thickness since last February...
...Thompson presented his grim findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - after which more than a few hard-core scientists were quoted describing Thompson's highly technical report as, simply, "depressing...