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Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:44:45 GMT

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A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate.

Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away.

The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s.

Six ice shelves in the same part of the continent have already been lost, says the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Professor David Vaughan of BAS said: "Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened.

"I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread - we'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be."

Tags: climate change, global warming, antarctica, wilkins ice shelf, science

24 hours in pictures - Mar 28th

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:06:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 7 Chuzom, Bhutan: Indian women labourers carry rocks while working on a road widening project. Tens of thousands of migrant workers, mostly Indians, do the hard manual jobs that Bhutanese shun, such as building roads and construction

2 Baghdad, Iraq: Supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shout slogans during a protest against a crackdown on Shia militia in Basra and Baghdad by Iraqi government forces

14 London, UK: A work of art entitled Washed Up Fingers by Emma Donovan. It is part of a collection of work from 60 finalists entered in the BlindArt: Sense & Sensuality competition at the Henry Moore gallery, Royal College Of Art

13 Moscow, Russia: A model displays a creation by Antonina Shapovalova at a fashion show

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Taipei

Tibetans walk among flags during a 49-hour hunger strike in front of the democracy square

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Ohio

Bush salutes air force personnel as he arrives at Wright-Patterson air force base

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Tokyo

Children and advance students from the Suzuki Method music school play the cello

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Den Bosch,

during the Grand Prix World Cup final of the equestrian dressage

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Manila

Workers arrange sacks of rice imported by the Philippine National Food Authority

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Quito

woman carries her pet pigeon named Isabel

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Harare

makeshift home. Sadi, and her husband had to relocate when 90,000 homes were demolished in a 2005 government slum clean-up campaign

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Johannesburg

Zimbabwean refugee takes shelter in a church

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Xuzhou

man works in the production line at the Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group

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Berlin

street artist balances in front of the TV tower

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Islamabad,

Religious students pray after a demonstration calling for the release of the the cleric of the Lal Masjid mosque

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Baghdad

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London

A work of art entitled Washed Up Fingers

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Moscow

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Hillary Clintons Difficult Relationship with the Truth

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:29:02 GMT

clipped by: boniface

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It's hard for the average person to accept much less understand how someone can tell brazen lies without the slightest hesitation and usually without detectable signs of deception. But having known a couple and spent some time around them, I can tell you that as hard as it is to believe that people like that exist, they do.

Remember when Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat, admitted on a television show that Bill Clinton was "an exceptionally good liar?" That's how bad the Clintons are.

Anyone who has been around couples who have been married for many years can tell you that their characteristics meld over time, and one often fuels such tendencies in the other.

With both Bill and Hillary being the liars they are, can the United States survive them a second time?