And it's always drifting. The pack ice is always drifting.

Houston, I am off structure and drifting.

Many young Japanese people are drifting aimlessly in life.

The ship was drifting at the mercy of the waves.

The Middle East is drifting towards a new great confrontation in 2008.

Sea otters rest by wrapping themselves in kelp to keep from drifting away.

Science, it seems, is drifting into political dangers it has not faced since before the Enlightenment.

The risk of drifting into a recession is larger in Europe than it is in the United States.

There isn't even a pole at the Pole. There's nothing there, purely because it's sea ice. It's drifting.

As a result, few people today doubt that the world is drifting, rudderless and leaderless, towards a second downturn.

Before we were united we really drew together but now we are irresistibly drifting apart and it cannot be altered.

Indeed, while Asia is rising, the rich industrial countries of the old G 7 have been drifting into a liquidity trap.

And so the river bank continued to recede and bodies were falling into the water and drifting all the way to the town.

France s resolve to stand with Germany helped prevent Germany from drifting into a dangerous neutrality that would have shaken the European community to its core.

Faced with the impossibility of advantageous accession to Euro Atlantic institutions, Russia is drifting fast towards alignment with China a younger brother, though a respected one.

At a time when Europe is drifting and Asia is slowing, only the US (or, more broadly, North America) has the potential to drive global economic recovery.

So the very simple idea was to use the ancient technique of sailing and tacking of the wind to capture or intercept the oil that is drifting down the wind.

Images of miserable refugee families drifting in the sea, at the mercy of rapacious smugglers and gangsters, can easily inspire feelings of pity and compassion (and not just in Germany).

The oceans heat content is measured by a network of more than 3,000 free drifting robotic floats spread out across the world s waters, where they routinely dive 2,000 meters beneath the surface.

But, to many voters, it seemed that Civic Platform, which had identified itself in 2007 as socially conservative and economically liberal, was drifting to the economic (as well as the cultural) left.

This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti American, populist stances Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year.

As a result, few people today doubt that the world is drifting, rudderless and leaderless, towards a second downturn. The pre summer debate about whether we faced a new normal of slower growth has been resolved nothing now looks normal.

Indeed, while Asia is rising, the rich industrial countries of the old G 7 have been drifting into a liquidity trap. As the ongoing recession exhausts the traditional instruments of monetary policy, central banks are opting for new rounds of quantitative easing (QE).

The ice is always moving, breaking up, drifting around, refreezing, so the scenery that I saw for nearly 3 months was unique to me. No one else will ever, could ever, possibly see the views, the vistas, that I saw for 10 weeks.

This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti American, populist stances Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year. If the perception of further US hostility toward Latin America persists, the tilt toward an irresponsible, demagogic left will harden.