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...active bear. The research was carried out for the Arctic Health Research Center. Aim: to discover how man can better adapt to cold by studying how animals...
...synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
...edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees; the steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world; and farthest south, the deserts. In this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much as the U.S. did in its Far West. In each case there were nomadic...
Where do the Russians test? The region near Semipalatinsk. scene of last week's explosion, is one of Russia's test sites in Central Asia, where large areas are almost uninhabited. Russian-owned islands in the Arctic Ocean may be sites of the biggest Soviet tests...
Heading a five-man team financed by the Arctic Institute of North America, Columbia's Ralph S. Solecki focused his search on a desolate coastal plain 300 miles east of Point Barrow. There, he reasoned, a narrow coastal strip protected by mountains suggested a natural corridor for early nomads. "Like modern campers," said Solecki, "they liked to set themselves up in well-drained spots sheltered from the wind...