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...impact even worse than expected. And according to a study that sent tremors through the scientific community last week, that is exactly what seems to be happening in Greenland. Glaciers that flow toward the ocean in the southern half of that enormous frozen island are among the world's fastest moving, and their massive outpouring of ice now contributes fully a sixth of the annual rise in sea level. According to a study in the current issue of Science, they have nearly doubled their rate of flow over the past five years, to about 8 miles a year, dumping icebergs...
...interior out to the sea, have gone on a tear. They?re flowing, on average, about twice as fast as they were a decade ago - and even back then, says glacier expert Julian Dowdeswell, of the University of Cambridge, "I was telling my students that they were among the fastest-flowing glaciers on Earth...
...until that point, Miller had not only battled the mountain at Sestriere Borgata, he brought the course to its knees, winning the downhill part of the combined. He threw himself out of the start house and quickly reached 126.48 kph-fastest on the day-at the first interval timing, slicing through the two tough turns in the upper part of the course. Nor did he make the mistake that had cost him a medal in the downhill, when he gave up too much speed in the lower section. Miller's time of 1:38.36 was .32 secs ahead of Didier...
...EISL), which can now grab a share of the league title with a win next weekend against Penn. “It feels really good to win Harvard-Yale-Princeton,” co-captain Bill Cocks said. “It’s always one of the fastest meets of the year, and everyone gets really into it. After our loss to Columbia earlier in the year, we wanted to make sure that we were still at the top of the league. This meet proved that we’re still a good team, and it was even...
...year on word of mouth. When a record-company bidding war ensued, the Arctic Monkeys signed with independent label Domino for a tidy sum and in January released their debut album in Britain, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, which not only is the fastest-selling British debut ever but was also voted by readers of the influential New Musical Express as the fifth greatest British album--of ALL TIME!-- topping, among others, the Beatles' Revolver and the Clash's London Calling...