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...taken more seriously, owing to global warming. The sea ice along the northern coast of Siberia is retreating, and last year a team of international scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during summer months. Within 20 years, the passage is expected to be passable without an icebreaker escort. This northern route would cut the distance from Hamburg to Yokohama to 6,920 nautical miles, as compared with 11,430 through the Suez Canal. That could lead to more efficient shipping of all sorts of cargo between Europe and Asia--especially oil and other mineral wealth from Siberia...
...quick on the trigger. Three days after the DC-4 downing, U.S. Skyraiders patrolling near Hainan shot out of the sky two LA-7s that showed signs of hostile behavior. Radio Beijing announced that two American fighters had made piratical attacks on two Polish merchant ships and one Chinese escort vessel, but failed to mention...
...astonishment, this works, and I escort Miss Fonda from the evil clutches of the paparazzi back into the ballroom. She is most grateful and we have a pleasant chat, after which we are joined by Gary Busey who shares more of what he calls his Busey-isms. Bridget (we're old pals after five minutes' conversation) knows Gary and recounts some of her favorite Gary Busey acronyms. BIBLE, it transpires, stands for something about "Information Before Leaving Earth." In the din of the ballroom I can't make out the first word beginning with B. I worry that...
...cases followed an outbreak of illness among Cabot House residents that began Sunday night. Nine of the 15 students admitted to UHS required a police escort to receive treatment...
...those students needed police escort, said Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department...