But unlike the lower glaciers, many of the high glaciers would still be too cold to lose mass even in the presence of atmospheric warming.

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He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.

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The problem of cyber arms control is akin to the greatest arms control failure of the Cold War, which still persists: the mass distribution of the most produced firearm in human history, the Kalashnikov AK-47.

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Libya started to come in from the cold around 2003 by relinquishing its weapons of mass destruction program, agreeing to help fight terrorism and later paying large sums to the families of terrorism victims, including those killed in the airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, for which a Libyan was convicted.

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Cold comfort to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a BP gadfly since the blowout began.

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Kazakhstan has additional obstacles: Cold weather, few tennis courts and a large land mass with low population density, which makes for expensive travel and greater difficulty in creating clusters of talent.

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For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.

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The insects show up en mass throughout North America in late September and October as they seek hiding places for the coming cold.

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