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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian P. who wrote (16312)	3/24/2000 12:11:00 AM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 769667

The ice in the earth's freezer is melting?...gotta love it, this is one hell of an ice cube: Huge Iceberg Breaks From Antarctica .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - An iceberg about twice the size of Delaware has broken off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica and could drift into shipping lanes around the South Polar region. The elongated iceberg, detected by satellites, measures 183 miles by 22 miles and is among the largest ever observed, according to the National Science Foundation, which coordinates American research at the South Pole. Scientists estimated that the iceberg surface area is about 4,247 square miles. Delaware is 1,932 square miles. ``This is a very big iceberg, close to a record if not a new record,' said Matthew Lazzara, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Antarctica Meteorological Research Center, which is supported by the NSF. An announcement said the iceberg formed from glacial ice moving off the Antarctic continent and into the sea. It broke off along cracks that formed in the Ross Ice Shelf. Although Antarctica is very cold, the continent receives only about an inch of precipitation a year. Based on this, scientists said it will take up to a century to replace the ice lost to the new iceberg. Calving of the iceberg moved the boundary of the Ross Ice Shelf southward about 25 miles. AP-NY-03-23-00 1106EST

To: Brian P. who wrote (16312)	3/24/2000 7:09:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Annoy the greedy trial lawyers who want to stop reform, vote Bush: The horror Trial lawyers are using tobacco money won in lawsuits to finance an all-out bid to defeat presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush and other Republicans, the New York Times reports. "It would be very, very horrifying to trial lawyers if Bush were elected," said John P. Coale, a Washington lawyer involved in the tobacco litigation, who has given more than $70,000 to the Democrats. "To combat that, we want to make sure we have a Democratic president, House and Senate. There is some serious tobacco money being spread around." Reporter Leslie Wayne said Mr. Bush has become the trial lawyers' "worst nightmare" because of his record in Texas of curbing civil litigation, capping legal fees and limiting jury awards. One of the biggest Democratic contributors has been Baltimore Orioles' owner Peter G. Angelos, who represented the state of Maryland in tobacco litigation. He has given $400,000 so far, and vows to do whatever is necessary to defeat Mr. Bush. washtimes.com