The sea ice expanded during Southern Hemisphere autumn and winter in response to thedevelopmentof a fresh, cool surface water layer, which floated on the denser, warmer salty sea water below.
Good research is one thing, but it takes a lot of profits from the few approved drugs that make it to market to pay for all the basic research and failed development candidates that lie beneath thesurface and out of view of most people.
For Microsoft, encouraging thedevelopmentof Windows 8-style apps has a broader imperative than just propping up theSurface RT (or Windows RT in general).
The UNESCO Chair in TheDevelopmentof a Sustainable Geoenvironment contributes to stalling and reversing the contamination and degradation of terrestrial systems and their surface and groundwater systems.
The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- thedevelopmentof a technology that can reflect a proportion ofthe sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.
While on the mark, Ros-Lehtinen's statement only scratches thesurfaceof how contrary to US law and the goals of Palestinian economic development and peace US financial assistance to the Palestinians truly is.