Word: antarctica
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...Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make it a veritable storehouse of protein for the world's growing population. Also, scientists are finding more and more evidence that there may be great mineral wealth under the ice, including...
...national claims have been set aside, and only scientific research with potential benefits for all mankind is encouraged. But scientists fear that as the need for protein and minerals increases, peaceful exploration may be followed by reckless exploitation. Invited by the National Science Foundation, Associate Editor Frederic Golden visited Antarctica and filed this report...
Fragile Document. If, as many geologists suspect, there is oil and other mineral wealth in Antarctica, who owns it? In the first half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...
That bizarre leaning is most noticeable-and most entertaining-in this odd little novel first published in 1908. If the works of R.D. Laing were placed at the North Pole (an idea that fills Chestertonians with equanimity), The Man Who Was Thursday would be in Antarctica. Chesterton here finds his inspiration in order, his thrills in sanity. To his hero, madness and chaos are not merely evil; they are dull. To this overdue reissue of the book Critic Gary Wills contributes a luminous introduction stressing Chesterton's search for revelation in the face of absurdity. The secret...
...part of Project FAMOUS, the American submersible Alvin and its French counterparts Archimède and Cyana explored one of the earth's last great frontiers: the rugged, seismically active rift valley that cleaves the floor of the Atlantic almost all the way from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. Last week, as the scientists who took part in FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) returned home from their expedition to the bottom of the sea, they reported that their little craft had discovered important new clues to the secrets of continental drift...