Ordered two years in advance, the material is shipped 10,000 miles by sea from California to McMurdo Station, the main United States coastal base on Antarctica.
President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, has often argued that Mr. Clinton erred by not insisting that all nuclear material be shipped out of North Korea, and by offering energy aid before the North had fully disarmed.
An addendum to the report by its author, Charles Duelfer, the C.I.A's senior weapons inspector, reached no firm conclusions about whether W.M.D-related material was shipped out of Iraq before the invasion.
The old method of burning piles of refuse and carting trash out to the sea ice to disappear with breakout has been replaced by one of the most effective recycling programs anywhere, in which waste material is shipped back to the Unites States for processing.
Where no mills exist, the material is shipped to facilities sometimes a half a world away for shaping and finishing the stone for a particular project.
The material was shipped to NREL, where it was ground to pass through a 20-mesh screen.
An aliquot of the viral culture material was shipped frozen on April 22, 2008, to CDC, where the isolate was identified as HPAI (H5N1) virus by real-time reverse transcription PCR.
The first batch of chemical weapons materials were shipped out of Syria on a Danish commercial vessel on 7 January.
Thousands of crates of building materials were shipped from China to ensure authenticity, and no nails, screws or power equipment were used.
Imports of crude oil and iron ore rebounded from multimonth lows to record highs last month, as more raw materials were shipped in to rebuild depleted stocks, and soybean purchases hit a record for a second month.
