The geometric cracks are likely caused by the repeated freezing and thawing of buried ice.
For example, he proposes a slight thawing of relations with Cuba (see article).
This could be due to the thawing of the Northern permafrost and increased emissions from tropical wetlands.
Rather, the thawing of attitudes reflects a recognition of Syria's importance to a range of the region's troubles.
In Asia, too, the proxy wars were over, but the thawing of the cold one still brought big changes.
But since forming an umbrella organization, their leaders say there is a slow thawing of attitudes towards gays in Kenya.
It took compelling events such as the thawing of the Cold War and skyrocketing public debt to finally break this cycle and force consolidation and moderation.
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Activists are benefiting from an uptick in mergers and acquisitions and a thawing of the credit markets, which make it easier to find buyers for parts of the companies in which they invest.
So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun?
While earthquakes have often been blamed for rock failures and landslides on mountain slopes, scientists also point at global temperature rises for rapid thawing of snowfields and glacial melt that can disturb the flow of snow-fed rivers.
The records from a particularly warm period called Marine Isotopic Stage 11, which occurred around 400, 000 years ago, suggest that warming of 1.5C compared to the present is enough to cause substantial thawing of permafrost - even in areas far north from its present-day southern limit.
Increased evaporation from the exposed sea should also mean more snowfall to compensate for the ice cap's losses (though together with rapid erosion at the margins this could increase the gradient of the ice cap, making it less stable.) But this is small consolation for another big fear: rapid thawing of the Arctic permafrost.
On Wednesday, though, that frosty attitude toward flashy ads showed clear signs of thawing.
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He said today that the Fed would begin buying commercial paper in hopes of thawing credit markets.
Now the frozen conflict is showing worrying signs of thawing.
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On the Seward Highway just south of Anchorage, a motorist was critically injured Friday when chunks of thawing ice fell onto her pickup truck from cliffs above the two-lane thoroughfare.
Firefighters said the flooding was caused by a mixture of heavy rain and rising temperatures thawing snow and ice, and have warned people to listen to forecasts.
Analysts see the lawmakers' trip and Obama's campaign rhetoric as a way for the new administration to start thawing relations with Cuba before the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
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Last, the project will try to work out how thawing permafrost will affect the numerous streams, rivers and lakes of the Arctic.
When the power went out, Barcellos-Hoff's researchers spent hours climbing up and down eight flights of stairs, trying to save specimens stored in thawing freezers.
The Environment Agency said 30mm of rain had fallen overnight in North Yorkshire, which, coupled with thawing snow, had caused river levels to rise.
Surely this must be confirmation that the thawing economy is growing its green shoots into mighty redwoods and that the recession is a thing of the past finalement.
There is another benefit of egg-freezing technology that many people don't know about: If your own frozen eggs don't survive thawing or fertilization or fail to grow into robust embryos, you can go online to one of the many commercial egg banks popping up across the country and order a batch of frozen eggs donated by a woman who looks like you.
Though the aim is to assist in thawing the credit markets, which became frozen after the subprime mortgage crisis, it runs the risk of causing serious inflation once economic growth resumes.
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