The U.S. Navy has deployed two nuclear-powered submarines off the coast of Alaska close to a temporary camp constructed on the ice roughly 150 miles north of Prudhoe Bay.

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Unsurprisingly, Green Bay, Minnesota and Chicago lead the ice brigade, combining for nine of the 16 coldest games on record (though Minnesota dropped out of further contention when the hometown Vikings moved indoors in 1982).

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The high point of the journey came on the second afternoon of the trip, as the ferry approached the incredible ice walls of the Patagonian glaciers, entering a turquoise-tinted bay thick with floating icebergs.

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To hold on to subscribers and advertisers, the Times has taken aggressive and costly steps, such as launching a free daily tabloid and acquiring the naming rights to the former Ice Palace in Tampa, a major concert venue and home of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team.

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Around midday Friday, the sturdy and ice-strengthened science research vessel, the "Grigory Mikheev, " will depart Kangerlussuaq in Greenland bound for Disko Bay, a location on the west coast that provides some of the starkest examples of the island's melting ice caps.

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