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...scientific Cassandras. Says George Kukla, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "Just because we can't get our cars started, are suffering from frostbite, and have a few feet of snow in our driveways, we should not start worrying about an Ice Age." Among scientists who fear that significant worldwide climatic changes have already begun, there are those who believe that another Ice Age is not far ahead-as well as others who predict that a potentially devastating warming trend may occur...
...Age doomsayers note evidence that average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped 1° Celsius during the 1950s and 1960s. Kukla found that the average snow and ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere increased sharply in 1971 compared with the years between 1967 and '70. It reached a peak in '72 and '73 and then retreated about halfway back to what it had been in the late '60s. Now, says Kukla, satellite studies indicate that the snow and ice cover last fall increased again to about the level of '71. German Oceanographer Martin Rodewald...
Their finding: the timing of each of the planet's major ice ages was closely related to changes in the earth's attitude and orbit that reduced the amount of summer sunlight striking the polar caps. Unless man somehow unbalances the equation, these scientists concluded, the trend over the next 20,000 years will be toward a cooler global climate and the spread of glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere-a new Ice Age...
...daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
Focusing primarily on the "golden age" of rock 'n' roll--the period which, roughly speaking, began with Elvis, and ended as the '70s began--the almost 400 page book includes over 1,000 photographs, and 72 essays on individual artists, the evolution of specific musical styles, and major pop trends. Discographies accompany each essay...