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...coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100?? in the summer to 75° below zero in the winter. To travel from the state capital of Juneau to the outermost Aleutian island of Attu is to span 2,000 miles and four time zones. Yet Alaska has fewer people than any other state: 293,000, the equivalent of Akron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...biggest TAPS problem would come from burying the pipeline in permafrost; no one really knows how the soil would behave. Oil would enter the pipe at a geothermal temperature of more than 100??; pumping and friction would boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...some hogs. We raise a little barley. Dad an' me do most of the work, but we got two men who help us part time." One of the ranch hands materializes at his side like a movie extra and sharpens his knife on a pocket stone. It is 100?? in the yard. "There's not much money in ranchin' around here," continues McCorry. "One trouble is the rain. In a year we don't get but ten, eleven inches. We get a lot of fires. A fire last year burned 9,000 acres around here. But we get green grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: CANDIDE CAMERA: IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Sinai Peninsula, headed west. The vehicles were Russian, captured during the Six-Day War. The Israeli soldiers aboard them spoke fluent Arabic and wore Egyptian-type uniforms. Moving only at night to escape surveillance by Egyptian planes and hiding under camouflage during the day while temperatures soared above 100?? F., the strange convoy reached the Gulf of Suez early last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MIDDLE EAST: THE WAR AND THE WOMAN | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Virtually the same condition occurred last week at Quanah, Tex. (110°); Phoenix, Ariz. (116°); Hays, Kans. (117°); Belleville, Kans. (119°); Emporia, Kans. (112°). Over a vast area including Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas the daytime temperature did not fall below 100?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Times | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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