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Today it does, and the SOG's capacities are growing. Its maritime branch has speedboats to carry commandos to shore, and the agency can rent cargo ships through its front companies to transport larger equipment. The air arm, which Pentagon officials have nicknamed the Waffen CIA, has small passenger jets on alert to fly paramilitary operatives anywhere in the world on two hours' notice. Other cargo planes, reminiscent of the Air America fleet that the agency had in Vietnam, can drop supplies to replenish teams in remote locations. For areas like Afghanistan and Central Asia, where a Russian-made helicopter...
Within the past year, scientists watched in awe as a giant ice shelf disintegrated in the Antarctic Peninsula in just over one month's time, and in a remote region of West Antarctica, satellites have detected an expanse where glaciers are worrisomely speeding up their transport...
...number of reasons. Among other things, they serve as buffers against currents and wave action and as buttresses that provide structural support. In fact, the absence of ice shelves may be the reason that glaciers in the remote Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica are speeding up their transport of ice to the sea. Earlier this year, in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen B ice shelf showed what can happen when conditions warm. First, rising summer temperatures created meltwater ponds on the surface of the ice shelf, allowing water to pour into cracks. Then pressure exerted by the inflow...
...lucrative transatlantic routes. E.U. courts banned the individually negotiated deals between 11 member states and the U.S., saying they should be arranged en bloc. When the U.S. appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw up a new deal aren't expected to break the sound barrier - and meanwhile, airlines complain, they're left flying in legal limbo...
Over the next few months, the University will also test a natural gas-powered Ford shuttle van, which assists disabled individuals during the day and is on-call to transport students at night...