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A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October.
In a story Jan. 23 about British skier Felicity Aston becoming the first woman to cross Antarctica alone, The Associated Press reported erroneously that she announced her achievement by Twitter. The message:"!!!Congratulations to the 1st female to traverse Antarctica SOLO.V proud," was posted on her Twitter account by her support team.
This has been the busiest summer in history for Antarctic expeditions, with dozens of skiers reaching the end of the Earth to mark the centennial of man's first journey to the South Pole.
British adventurer Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica on Monday, hauling two sledges around crevasses and over mountains into endless headwinds, past the South Pole and onward to the coastal ice shelf, persevering for 59 days in near-total solitude.
British adventurer Felicity Aston has reached the South Pole, nearly halfway in her attempt to become the first human to ski solo using only muscle power across Antarcica.
A British adventurer says windy weather and crevasse-laden terrain have slowed her solo expedition across Antarctica, but she expects to reach the South Pole in two weeks before heading off for the other side of the frozen continent.
A 33-year-old British adventurer set out on skis Friday to attempt a historic solo crossing of Antarctica.
A northern Kentucky man is accused of beating his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor to death with a baseball bat.
In 1939, about 5,000 copies of a book offering hopeless drunks a spiritual path to recovery through 12 steps were released by a fledgling fellowship of alcoholics.
A Russian ship reached open water off Antarctica after struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days, a Russian shipping company and a British travel agency said Friday.
Fargo Shanley stopped Devils Lake on a two-point conversion in overtime, clinching a 31-30 victory in the North Dakota Class 2A high school football championship game.
Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.
Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.
On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.
Trapped with his ship in Antarctic ice a century ago, explorer Frederick Cook dreaded the approaching "blackness of the long polar night," the grim winter that would darken "the inner world of our souls."
Lawmakers from Chile and Argentina met in Antarctica Thursday, preparing to speak with a common voice against Britain's claim to oil and gas in the southernmost seas.
Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent's ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic "big melt" from global warming.
Monaco's Prince Albert II has reached the South Pole after a two-day-long cross-country ski trip across Antarctica, fraught by wind and fog.
A California man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for shooting to death his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor at a meeting.
Atheists Celebrate Black History Month By Targeting Black Community"A lot of people think there's one black experience. A lot of people think that if someone's black it means that they're religious.
Sometimes I wonder what I would do without the unending and sometimes, undeserving support from my wife. After getting sober 4 years ago, I have relapsed 1 time… 6 months ago. It was a 1 month bender without too much drama.
Is Alcoholics Anonymous Too White? | | AlterNetironically, while the biggest complaint about AA and NA among skeptical middle-class white addicts is the dependence on a Higher Power, in urban black communities 12-step recovery groups are marginalized because they aren't explicitly allied with any church.
In the Obama Kwanzaa Series we have been comparing Obama's principles and performance, especially his third year in office, to each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Forget the Downgrade, Panic About Everything Else - The AtlanticPartisanship has already cost us our AAA-rating. The politics of stalemate can still cost us so much more.
One down, two to go: Moody's next to downgrade the U.S. credit ratingJust when you think the US debt debacle can’t get any worse, ratings agency Moody's warns it could downgrade the United States credit score before 2013.
The downgrade of our credit rating from AAA to AA+ by one of three major rating agencies while not the end of the world yielded exactly the results the GOP wanted !! Interest rates on debt will tick up to the tune of billions of dollars of additional interest on …
Are Credit Ratings Agencies Credible?S&P’s credibility to make any sort of statements about anything at all is highly suspect.
Bobby "Bull" Thompson, Among 1st Black Baseball Players In Big League Has DiedJackie Robinson may have been the first black ballplayer to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but Bull Thompson was the first one from Charlotte to do it.
AA asks European Union to investigate oil market manipulation• AA queries high price of petrol on British forecourt• Shell sees profits rise by 40% The AA is to ask the European competition commissioner to investigate whether oil and petrol markets are being manipulated as Shell reports first quarter profits up 40%, making …
Foreclosure: Investigation launched into practices at a law firm handling Maryland foreclosures - baltimoresun.comIs this part of the morgage crisis or is this a scam? Or are they both the same? :)lol
Why don't Ethiopian women date African-American men (for the most part)? - Topix"We pure Ethiopian Amhara group. We used you asssssssssss….. as slave. Even after the slavery abolished. We still do not want to marry your Baria Assss.. or have and anything to do with you, except making you work for free at our house.
75 Years of AA Works - Are we celebrating? The paragraphs below summarize a published article prepared for the celebration of the 75 years of AA work. I hope it gets you started thinking on Who and/or what heals.
The First 9 amendments of the Constitution of the USA were put into place to ensure our personal privacy. Being in recovery from alcohol dependency has taught me a lot about personal boundaries and the right to privacy.
Earnings season officially began, as the first member of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to grab Q4 2009 earnings headlines, Alcoa (AA), reported a net profit of $0.01 EPS on Monday, January 11.
Report calls for overhaul of California community colleges' transfer processCommunity college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker.
My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic - Roger Ebert on AAIn August 1979, I took my last drink. It was about four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, the hot sun streaming through the windows of my little carriage house on Dickens.
Friday night on the news Hour Ch 13 (PBS) had it at the end, but the commentator said there was not enough time to cover it. Sunday talk leads with the economy and Health Care, so the President was successful in getting this story off the MSM front pages.
Medical Treatment for Addiction Still Needs 12-Step ProgramsA clearly written article on how advancements in medical treatment of addiction are proceeding, and what that means for 12-step programs like AA
Probation For Death of Beloved PetA young man convicted of shooting his girlfriend's dog has been given 28 days in jail, probation and an order to attend AA meetings. Was justice done here?
Good News Wednesday: On This Day: Bill Wilson Founds Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935On June 10, 1935, Bill Wilson and his friend Dr. Robert Smith set out to find the best way to reform alcoholics, and Alcoholics Anonymous was born.
AA is Faith-Based, Not Evidence-BasedAlcoholics Anonymous is the most widely used treatment for alcoholism. It is mandated by the courts, accepted by mainstream medicine, and required by insurance companies.
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