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...side, you see it: the Ross Ice Shelf, a mesmerizing expanse of white that stretches to the horizon and beyond. Wreathed in ice fog, the ice shelf takes on the haziness of a mirage. Yet it is all too substantial. Its surface ripples with undulating pressure ridges and solid, wind-hewn waves called sastrugi that move with the ice as it flows inexorably toward...
Like Julius Caesar's Gaul, the ice that covers Antarctica is divided into three parts. There is the small ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is the big ice that covers the solid, continental block of East Antarctica to a depth, in places, of nearly three miles. And there is the middle-size ice of West Antarctica, much of which lies below sea level, so that its outermost fringes come into potentially perilous contact with seawater...
...These kids are solid,” Keller said. “It’s the most talented team we’ve ever had here at Crimson volleyball...
DIED. RICHARD CRENNA, 76, versatile character actor; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Known to '50s TV viewers as squeaky-voiced student Walter Denton in Our Miss Brooks, he created solid characters in such films as Wait Until Dark, Rambo, The Flamingo Kid and Body Heat...
Some of the happy-talk books may help their readers get through one or two dark nights of the soul. But the wisdom they ladle out is often scattershot, anecdotal, an Oprah sermon in paperback. Few of them are written by psychiatrists or psychologists; few are based on solid research...