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Barber was aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen, checking on ice in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska and Western Canada. The ship was well inside a region the satellites said should be choked with thick, multiyear-old ice. "That's pretty much a no-go zone for an icebreaker of the Amundsen's size," says Barber. But the ship kept going, at a brisk 13 knots - its top speed in open water is 13.7 knots - and even when it finally reached thick ice, he says, "we could still penetrate it easily...
...accident,” Ehrlich insists. “The refs run a very tight ship around here...
...further weaken Russia's influence in the region. But considering the dependence of both countries on trade with Russia, this still seems like a distant prospect, and some analysts say Kazakhstan's offer to Belarus is most likely a bluff. It would be costly and difficult for Kazakhstan to ship oil to Belarus, and Belarus could not afford to pay fair-market prices anyway, says Denis Borisov, an analyst at Bank Moskvy, one of Russia's largest banks. Kazakh companies could, however, undercut Russian bids for the Naftan refinery, he says, which would be a major blow to Russia...
...Sullivan, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and now a p.r. consultant. "But the American public is very forgiving." Sullivan, who admits he'd never take Edwards on as a client, nevertheless had some advice: tell it first, tell it all and tell it yourself. The ship has sailed on a couple of those - unless of course, there are more skeletons in the Edwards' well-appointed closets. So even though some people are begging Edwards to just go away, he needs to fess up to anything else, now, before the National Enquirer digs it up. The Enquirer...
...after a few phone calls, the organizers were put through to the CEO of TACA Airlines—a Latin American airline company with a hub in Houston—who agreed to ship the books from Texas to El Salvador for free...