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...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 Ice Shelf like frozen rivers...
...additional $40 million annually. For its part, BT must contribute an additional $330 million annually to cover its pension-fund deficit - which eats into profits. As a way to stem the flow, some U.K. employers have stopped offering plans that promise retirees a fixed benefit: in the private sector, 30% of such plans have closed to new entrants. (Newer schemes are much less certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That...
...school Democrats are also upset at the philosophy behind Bush's plan, which they argue is more interested in getting the homeless out of view than in solving their problems. "The largest-growing sector is actually women and children," says Donald Whitehead, the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, the oldest and largest advocacy group on this issue. "A true strategy needs to include the entire population...
...Because publishing is considered part of the state's ideological apparatus, each year the government allocates a certain number of ISBNs to state-owned publishing houses. One way for publishers to generate profit is by selling ISBNs to the private sector. An ISBN can be sold for $2,000 to $4,000. Although this is illegal, according to China's General Administration of Press and Publication, it is common practice among Chinese enterprises...
...plan is certainly an aggressive specimen of free-market Republicanism and a stirring tribute to the twin ghosts of Keynes and Reaganomics. Deficits? If they even matter (which die-hards still won't admit), just tell Congress to spend a little less, if you're so worried, and private-sector growth - the increasing pie - will take care of the rest. Skewed to the rich? Well, they pay the most taxes anyway. At least it wasn't big corporations...