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...simple tabulation of targets provides sufficient circumstantial evidence that there is clearly some regional if not national coordination at work among those waging attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. But it also shows that most of their activity is confined to a relatively small pocket of territory stretching northward from Baghdad - the "Sunni triangle." The insurgency may find significant communal support among Sunnis, but its growth potential remains distinctly limited without participation from the Shiite majority. The Shiites were the brutally oppressed underclass of Saddam's Iraq, and they are deeply hostile to the Baathists. They also, however, remain...
First they flap northward in the spring to their Arctic nesting grounds--the geese, the pelicans, the storks, dozens of species. Then in the fall they wing back home to perhaps Africa or South America, prey to man's and nature's casual malevolence--the hunters, the oil slicks, the raptors--not to mention their own exhaustion...
...this threat is a recently discovered vulnerability of the Gulf Stream. The current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...
...Atlantic, in some places leaving a ten foot thick layer on the ocean surface, according to Terence Joyce, also of Woods Hole. As the lighter fresh water slows the sinking of the Gulf Stream as it hits these northern latitudes it reduces the pull that brings warm water northward. Scientists estimate that the speed of the conveyor in the far north has diminished by 20% since the 1970s. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the synchronous freshening of the North Atlantic, a less vigorous Gulf Stream, and a cold snowy Northeast when the rest of the world is baking (last year...
...newspaper or on television. Pfc. Dwyer is an Army medic who enlisted two days after Sept. 11. (His three brothers are New York City police officers). Last Tuesday, his unit, the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was ambushed by Hussein’s troops as they advanced northward along the Euphrates River. The Iraqis were firing from both sides of the road; the Americans shot back and radioed for air strikes. Meanwhile, a family from a nearby village became trapped in the crossfire. As soon as the shooting ceased, the father raced frantically toward the U.S. Army field...