When not being accosted by curious strangers, wearers can use the eyewear to break the ice.
Men, perhaps lonely or simply shy, could break the ice by asking a woman to dance.
It will be even shorter when it is possible to break the ice across the North Pole.
"The first individual to break the ice often ends up in a bit of an atmosphere of failure, " he said.
If he and his hosts don't know each other well, Mr. Zimmern sometimes tries to break the ice by asking questions about what's around him.
Researchers from Warwick University, writing in the British Journal of Psychology, said that dogs gave people a safe topic of conversation with which to break the ice with a stranger.
It was a delicate assignment, so Bartlett and Fleischer practiced the night before and decided Fleischer would break the ice when they met with the Cheneys during a motorcade ride.
Brubeck and Wright performed that same tune during a performance at the 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow, which U.S. diplomats credited with helping break the ice at a tense moment in arms control negotiations.
Ms. Steinberg gave a series of pointers: how to make eyes at a man (quick glances that indicate you like what you see), how to break the ice (talk about anything you can see, touch, smell or hear) and, most importantly, how to get a man to ask you on a date (make it very clear that you will say yes).
Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.
The US space agency (Nasa) and the Russian academy of sciences are planning to break through the ice to sample the water for life.
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And what better time of year to break out the ice cream machine than now, during peak tomato season?
Bloom, 25, worked with a heavy metal pole to break ice blocks into the frozen water.
News of the Wilkins ice shelf's impending break-up came less than two weeks after the United Nation's Environment Program reported that the world's glaciers are melting away and that they show "record" losses.
Heavy machinery was brought in to break up and remove ice from the river, so that boats and divers could get in, Sideras explained.
If that happens, it might present problems for some emperor colonies if the seasonal ice starts to break up before fledglings have had a chance to acquire their full adult, waterproof plumage.
We saw and heard about the impacts, from slumping land due to the melting of permafrost to hunter stories about the northward migration of species and the challenge that early ice break up poses for transportation.
Working alongside the volunteers, they were handed poles to break off blocks or head-high saws to cut through the ice.
Despite not being taken past 30 on serve the Scot still required a tie-break but he remained ice cool, breaking immediately and consolidating with a huge ace.
"As of mid-March, only a narrow strip of shelf ice was protecting several thousand kilometers of potential further break-up, " the group said.
Fiodor shows us his favourite statues before taking a break from the Milanese evening heat at Bar Chocolat - a gelateria boasting over ten different types of chocolate ice cream.
The 750 or so icebergs that break off from glaciers each year and drift south from Greenland are floating masses of freshwater ice formed in the pristine air of 3, 000 B.
The 750 or so icebergs that break off from glaciers each year and drift south from Greenland are floating masses of freshwater ice formed in the pristine air of 5, 000 years ago.
Above-freezing temperatures also led to overflow along the trail, a potentially dangerous situation where water has pushed up through the ice and refrozen, creating a weak top layer of ice that teams and mushers can break through.
Temperatures in the Arctic are now even higher than they were then, and a period of renewed ice shelf break-up has ensued since 2002.
Two of the school's Enterprise Enrichment Groups (Skinners' International and The Fred Ice Fundraising Group) were challenged to set up two competing businesses and sell their products at break time.
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