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What Barber's expedition further discovered was that some Arctic sea ice is not only whisper thin, but that even in places with thick ice, the ice was not as solid as satellites had indicated. That thick ice was still there, but largely as individual chunks covered with a veneer of new ice that masked their true nature. "It's significant and it's surprising," says Maslanik. "I wouldn't have expected that the ice would be as rotten and weak as what David Barber's team found...
...Hadley's veneer is strong but no longer impenetrable. Though not quite big enough for the NFL, Hadley has thought about pursuing a pro-football career in Europe's minor leagues. However, after reading about football's potential cognitive consequences and seeing all that tau, he's reconsidering that career move. He'll either pursue the dream of playing pro football or give his long-term health first priority. At least he's thinking about it. Perhaps the football fixing has begun...
...reason for the Republican minority to help the Democratic majority rack up policy accomplishments. If the Democrats pass major legislation, they can campaign on it in the midterm elections, preserving or even expanding their majority. This is especially true if Republicans sign on, which gives the legislation an attractive veneer of bipartisanship...
Despite its modern veneer, Muslim-majority Malaysia is a country where it is still illegal - as opposed to merely irreligious - for men of any faith to engage in consensual sex with one another. (Lesbianism is not criminalized but the subject of a religious prohibition, or fatwa.) Kuala Lumpur may boast its share of gay and lesbian bars, and casual visitors can spot scores of transsexuals staffing cafés and department stores. But any open discussion of homosexuality, especially in writing, remains the domain of an enlightened, often foreign-educated...
...among 100. But on probably the biggest bill of the century, she's now one of a handful cutting the deal. When the Clinton Administration attempted to pass health-care reform, Finance was its graveyard. This time, the idea survived the committee with unified Democratic support and a veneer of bipartisanship. It's a major step--but far from the final one. "My vote today is my vote today," Snowe said. "It doesn't forecast" what she might do down the road. In politics, as LBJ knew, the power of yes is meaningless unless twinned with the menace...