Word: arctically
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...cause of the commotion was the appearance of a single squat, unassuming, pigeon-like bird called a Ross's gull, which is almost never seen south of the Arctic Circle, and never before in the continental U.S. It was indeed present and, as if on cue, put on a show for the hundreds of bird watchers by feeding three times each day with a flock of Bonaparte's gulls (named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon) making their accustomed annual visit...
Since Junior was last seen slipping over a snow ridge somewhere in the frozen North, Dad joins forces with a just-plain-swell American (David Hartman) who specializes in Arctic studies. With an occasional hand from an eccentric French blimp captain, these two run Junior to ground-rather strange ground too. He has been lodged in a verdant valley that is nestled behind some icecaps and warmed, as Scientist Hartman conjectures, "by volcanic springs." Even more amazing, the folks who inhabit the valley are Vikings, descendants of the old explorers, who live, work and fight just as their forebears...
This all could have been jolly enough had anyone taken the trouble to believe in it, or at least make it look good. Along with everything else, though, the Arctic looks like a melted dessert, the Viking village like a low-rent neighborhood in Disneyland, and the Vikings themselves like Hell's Angels on Halloween...
...producers want to squeeze the private oil companies because they are viewed as competitors. Mani Said Utaiba, Petroleum Minister of the United Arab Emirates, complained: "These profits are being used by [the companies] to find alternative sources for our oil. They are investing on a huge scale in the Arctic and the North Sea. This we will not accept...
...that whip around the top and bottom of the world. Those winds move generally from west to east, but the outer edge of the vortex twists and bends, like the bottom of a large, swirling skirt. In the U.S. Far West, for instance, the winds bring down cold, dry Arctic air; thus winters there have been unusually bitter. Conversely, in such normally chilly regions as New England and Scandinavia, winters have been uncharacteristically warm because the vortex has pulled up warm air from the south. At times, great air masses of differing temperature and humidity can collide, creating unusually violent...