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...nearly 90 years after his failed 1914-16 effort to traverse Antarctica, British explorer Ernest Shackleton has become the hottest guy to battle icebergs since Leonardo DiCaprio. Caroline Alexander has published The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition; leadership tomes explicate the explorer's lessons for middle managers. PBS has just aired Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, which was also adapted for IMAX theaters. Now comes the A&E mini-series Shackleton (April 7, 8 p.m. E.T., and April 8, 9 p.m. E.T.)--with a Biography episode (April 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) thrown in for the compleat Shackle-phile...
...ANTARCTICA Now You See It, Now You Don't An ice shelf 200 m thick, 3,250 sq km in extent and weighing 500 billion tons broke up in less than a month. Though average Antarctic peninsula temperatures have risen by 2.5C in the last 50 years, the eastern Larsen B shelf crumbled into small icebergs far faster than expected. The shelf was a huge extension into the water of the ice sheets covering the land mass. It was one of five that have been shrinking owing to climate change. An iceberg half the size of Cyprus broke...
...that, “In a way, some of the inspiration for the movie is the architecture of the buildings there. The libraries and clubs and houses and things are unlike those any other place in America.” While the film features locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Paris and Jamaica, a large brownstone in Harlem that doubles as the Tenenbaum’s residence takes center stage...
NEXT TIME YOU'RE IN ANTARCTICA...
...role of victim. Instead, The Vagina Monologues is a joyous, sometimes poignant and often hilarious exploration of women's conflicted feelings about their vaginas. The play--which has been known to propel women in the audience to their feet, whooping and stomping in recognition--has been performed from Antarctica to Zaire. It is currently playing in more than 25 countries and is almost a cult piece on college campuses, where feminism, for some young women, has become a dirty word. Ensler originally did the play as a one-woman show, but it is now usually played with a cast...