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...that much, at least, Thompson and his team succeeded. The ice from Kilimanjaro is now back in Columbus, Ohio, along with numerous other specimens wrested from earlier expeditions to the impressively high mountains that ring the tropics. During the next five years, Thompson plans to retrieve still more. If it weren't for his work, the world might forfeit a natural library filled with priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts...
...loves the new line of "Raging Moral Controversy" three-ring binders b) had a stem cell explode on her blouse c) displays a reference book used by the President...
...perceived foot-dragging after the accusation against Woodland was aired, hundreds of Okinawans protested. The uproar reached all the way to President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, upsetting their first summit meeting in Washington. Okinawan politicians, sensing an opportunity, lunged once again for the brass ring: they demanded the SOFA be revised. Koizumi agreed it needed work; U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, on a visit in mid-July, flatly refused. Outrage mounted to a point that it seemed almost an offering to better U.S.-Japan relations when the Air Force did, eventually, give Woodland up. Staff...
...gave her the ring, and she cried, and we consummated our engagement in a way that, because of the late hour and general excitement, didn't last all that long. Afterward she said, "If this is what it's going to be like, I'm not sure I want to marry you." That's when I knew I had made the right decision...
...nonstop throughout the country. At this year's East of England Championship Show, dogs with show names reminiscent of wartime coded messages - Mariglen Force the Pace with Becksett, Sequentia Reflection in Arabin - compete for titles and trophies. In between the primping and tense sessions with nervous owners in the ring, the animals spend hours in cages or in the confines of their small slots on long, partitioned benches. According to dog trainer and behaviorist Carol Price, writing in the monthly magazine Dogs Today, some animals "spend most of their lives in crates or restricted runs, only coming out when...