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What's even more ominous than the speedup is the fact that it's spreading northward. Between 1996 and 2000, says Rignot, glaciers started accelerating, but only up to the 66th parallel. Over the next five years, the speedup moved north to the 70th. "If it spreads even further north," says Dowdeswell, "the implications are that much greater...
...Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide supporters fled the island to escape persecution by the new regime. A pregnant Pascal was beaten—leading to a miscarriage—and burned with cigarettes before she decided to leave her husband, two children, and mother behind in search of safety. Sailing northward on dangerous makeshift rafts, refugees were rounded up by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...Florida on Monday, in the chaos before the storm, long lines of cars snaked northward on U.S. 1 into Miami-Dade County, motorists lined up at gas stations, some of which had run out of regular gas, and shoppers at Costco in North Miami Beach waited on line for bottled water. Some residents of Key Biscayne, south of Miami, bagged beach sand to protect their homes from flooding. Others expressed no desire to evacuate. "We've been through so many of these things," says Jim Brewster, a longtime Key Biscayne resident. "I'm not going anywhere unless...
...severe drought across the Sahel killed as many as a quarter of a million people. In The Fate of Africa, an excellent new history of the continent since independence, writer Martin Meredith explains that drought "was only one aspect of the problem." Rapid population growth had forced peasants northward into pastoral areas that were too arid for permanent farms. "The overall result was overgrazing, overcultivation and deforestation on a catastrophic scale." A massive Western relief effort poured some $7.5 billion of aid into the region. "But all the efforts had little lasting impact," writes Meredith. Much of the aid went...
Above all, he was quick to concede error. When Grant was moving toward Vicksburg, Lincoln thought he "should go down the river," where he could meet up with General Nathaniel Banks. Instead, Grant decided to turn northward. "I feared it was a mistake," Lincoln acknowledged after Grant's spectacular victory. "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Then, to lessen the censure of another general, Lincoln wrote, "I frequently make mistakes myself, in the many things I am compelled to do hastily...