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...accumulates, new ice is constantly squeezing the old out to sea. But the disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf seems to be the result of a relatively recent--and perhaps ominous--change in Antarctica's climate. Over the past 50 years the average temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has risen 2.5[degrees]C, to -3[degrees]C. That's a much greater increase than for anywhere else in the world. Not only are ice shelves turning to slush, but plant life is also exploding, with vegetation in some spots increasing 25-fold...
Since this fall, the average number of daily e-mail messages has risen from 80,000 to 130,000. The number of peak concurrent logins has increased from400 to 700, and the number of Unix accounts hasincreased from 9,000 to 14,000, Steen said...
...number of people who attend the prayers has risen steadily, Khan said...
While the total volume of mail delivered by the post office has actually risen 5% since 1988, business-to-business mail during that same period dropped an alarming 33%. Most of that, the post office acknowledges, has been lost to fax machines, E-mail and electronic funds transfers. Among the many reasons: E-mail sent via the Internet arrives instantly, provided it is addressed correctly, while the post office is lucky to deliver 80% of first- class letters within three days -- an average that has caused the netheads of cyberspace to dub it ``snail mail.'' Moreover, one never reads about...
Hanks' career is emblematic of the Man of the Year award--it doesn't mean much, but it pretends to something substantial. He has risen above forgettable films such as "The Man With One Red Shoe" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" to carve a name for himself. There is no Tom Hanks action figure, but he is a recognized personality. He has made successful feelgood movies in an industry driven by profit-turning action flicks. His sympathetic performance in a formulaic dying-man role gleaned him an Oscar for "Philadelphia...