Scientists try to solve mystery of vanished lake in Chile
Rory Carroll,
Latin America correspondent
Friday June 22, 2007
The Chilean Andes. Photograph: Corbis
A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery.
Park rangers in Magallanes province, a remote wilderness 1,200 miles south of Santiago, were stunned to discover that the lake no longer existed. When last seen three months ago it had a surface area of 101,200 square metres (332,000 square feet) and was filled with icy water 30 metres (100ft) deep.
Team Gordon
If the PM-to-be is prepared to offer the likes of Paddy Ashdown a job, might he be prepared to cast his net even wider? Michael White offers some suggestions for a dream Brown cabinet
Friday June 22, 2007
The Guardian
Personally, I'm not sure how hard Gordon Brown had thought about it before he offered Paddy Ashdown that job as Northern Ireland secretary in the new cabinet. Admirable public servant though he is, Lord Ashdown can be quite exhausting. "Action Man" was one nickname he acquired as an MP, but "Tigger" was another. It is not true that he used to abseil into Lib Dem meetings through a closed window, three policy bullet points between his gritted teeth, but he was certainly in the habit of ringing up senior colleagues at all hours. Pre-dawn telephone raids were a favourite technique, probably drawn from his time in the Special Boat Service. The man is a trained killer. No wonder Charlie Kennedy took to drink.
But Brown is clearly on to something: a cabinet of all the talents. Let us help him out by providing a Guardian fantasy Brown cabinet to take on the rest of the world. What is more, let us not confine our attention to the Lib Dem talent pool, wide and deep though it is. After all, there has not been a Liberal cabinet since 1915, and no Liberal cabinet minister since Sir Archibald Sinclair was secretary for air in Churchill's 1940-45 coalition.
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listening to this week - catherine feeny just kind of stumbled across this artist . . . not made my mind up - I like her but I'm not sure if she is a Katie Melua type artist for me - whose CD I eventually gave a way as I just found her too laid back too insipid - if you know what I mean . . . .
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