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Other factors affect the ice sheet's stability. One of the most important is the balance between the rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross...
Harvard senior shooting guard Patrick Harvey scored eight points in 27 minutes, good enough to reach the 1,000-point milestone for his career, but still well below his usual production. Harvey, who is just the 21st player in school history to reach that scoring plateau, netted half of his points Friday at the free throw line and had just four attempts from the floor...
...Chiclets head straight for the refugee encampment on the mesa. These people are the subject of one of Col. Walker's personal crusades. They were relocated to this dusty, windswept plateau, two miles from the nearest water, by a European NGO which promised to build them housing here. Since then they have languished in patchwork tents, neglected and forgotten. If Walker hadn't come up with a two month supply of wheat this summer, they would have starved to death by now. The Chiclets are trying to arrange permanent housing for them before winter hits; just in case, Col. Walker...
...breeding with them and diluting the genes that have helped them survive. Fish escapes are common: nets are ripped open by predators or storms, fish in ponds get swept into channels by rainfall, others are released accidentally during transport. Bighead and silver carp that were introduced to China's plateau lakes in the 1950s have cleared those waters of whole species of indigenous fish. And Asian carp, which were introduced in Mississippi Delta catfish ponds to control parasites, escaped in the early 1990s and have migrated up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to within 25 miles of Lake Michigan, threatening...
Mitchell’s favorite target was senior All-Ivy wideout Rob Milanese, who outplayed the more hyped Morris. He finished with 139 yards on nine catches, including a 22-yard touchdown that pushed Penn over the 40-point plateau in the third quarter...