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...otherwise hostile political environment. Polls show it is the one area where it runs even with, or anywhere close to, its Democratic counterpart, on the issue of which of the two parties would better handle the economy. As they have felt increasing pains at the pump this summer, voters have shown more willingness to allow drilling off U.S. shores, open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and expand drilling in Western lands - all things the Dems have opposed. "There is nothing that the Republicans are proposing that will have an impact on the price at the pump," Pelosi told...
...early wake-up call wasn't quite necessary - our flight out was, of course, delayed by an hour. Ice-cap flights have an on-time record that makes United's look meticulous, but at least there's an excuse here. Weather in Greenland is changeable, and even in the summer, hardly perfect for flying. It's not unusual for flights to be delayed for hours, even canceled altogether, sometimes stranding people on the ice cap for days at a time. We were lucky - our plane did depart, and landed safely at NEEM some two-and-a-half hours later. There...
...Circle, with the open sun the temperature is only -6 degrees or -7 degrees C, though the wind can make it feel worse on the open snow. The sprawling cold room is also where the main drilling at NEEM will be done. That won't take place until next summer, but the scientists have already dug out a deep trench where the main drill will bore to the bottom of the ice. Here the cores will be pure ice, inside which gas will be trapped in tiny bubbles - air from over 100,000 years ago. Pulling up those cores will...
...economy may be slowing, but you wouldn't know it to look at the giddily bullish market for the services of the world's leading soccer players. The top clubs in England, Spain and Italy are primed to spend billions of dollars in the remaining four weeks of this summer's "transfer window," during which teams are allowed to trade consenting players. And in a game with no salary caps, the players - who not only get to negotiate a more lucrative deal with their new clubs but also get 10% of their transfer fee (the remainder going to the team...
...credit crunch suddenly trims the money available even to top clubs, the transfer market may see something of a correction - a development that could make middling leagues more competitive. And heaven help clubs boosted by vanity investment if their benefactors were to suddenly walk away. Even before this summer's spending is added, Chelsea would have just 18 months to repay Abramovich more than $1 billion if the Russian moved on to a different hobby...