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...National Marine Fisheries Service would ease salmon protections in the Pacific Northwest, and Washington would soften rules on logging and energy conservation. Opponents predict a new wave of even bolder measures in the coming months that could affect water and air quality and renew efforts to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. In response to the critics, White House spokesman Scott McClellan says, "There are a number of alarmist groups out there that are trying to promote fear in order to boost their own fund raising...
Anyone who has traveled much through the Arctic has seen them: astonishingly perfect circles, straight-sided polygons, even stripes that crisscross the hillsides, all made out of stones, as though some infant giant had been pushing pebbles into pleasing arrangements. And while nobody has invoked aliens--the popular explanation for crop circles in temperate zones--people have wondered for centuries what strange force could have assembled these supernatural-looking formations...
...quota. Scientists fear that the same disaster could befall European stocks. One factor in the Newfoundland collapse may have been an effect of climate changes caused by man. During the period 1988-96 the Atlantic was anomalously cold, because of very cold meltwater coming down from the Arctic. The frigid waters made the cod slow, sluggish and apparently reluctant to migrate. Normally cod migrate over hundreds of kilometers each year, moving into inshore spawning grounds in spring, then moving back to their feeding grounds farther out to sea, where they spend most of the year. But if the water...
...starting to feel like Jack from Titanic—you just have to let go.” Later he remarked, “You know it’s cold when you start crying”. Others put a positive spin on the arctic conditions. Lindsey A. Freeman ’05 called it a great venue for a date: “No matter what, it’s ultimately romantic—the cold provides a reason to get close.” Her date, Francisco Aguilar ’05 nodded in agreement, but when Freedman...
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