Unfortunately, the idea is better than the movie: the adventures on and off the ice, and the endless flow of innuendo (lots of crotch jokes and winking allusions to homosexuality), signify humor without actually being funny.

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Recent studies indicate that when the lakes drain suddenly into the ice, the acceleration of flow is not sustained.

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One theory is that the summer sun melts ice on the surface of the glacier which creates pools of water which then flow into moulins -- narrow tubular shafts in the glacier.

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The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings.

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The flow in the Mekong comes mainly from rainfall and some snow melt, not melting ice.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

In addition, data from 2007 to 2010 show that CBP and ICE have increased their seizure of southbound illegal currency and enhanced efforts to disrupt the flow of weapons into Mexico.

WHITEHOUSE: Strengthen International Partnerships