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...some trips out to the Arctic for that," Leaf says. "For my soundtrack I had some Eskimo women mimick animal sounds...
What they saw included an astonishing doughnut-shaped jet stream of hot gases circling the sun's "Arctic" region, like Earth's own circumpolar winds. The scientists were so taken aback by the fast-moving river of plasma, they said, that they dared not reveal their findings until they had rechecked their data several times. The scientists also got a close-up look at the sun's lower-latitude trade winds, whose existence they had hitherto only suspected. The new probes not only confirmed these suspicions but also showed that the winds--actually, great bands of plasma slightly warmer than...
...ways to improve on its handiwork. Today more than 350 species swim the planet, ranging in size from the less-than-1-ft.-long dwarf shark and pygmy ribbontail catfish shark to the 50-ft. whale shark. Sharks have insinuated themselves into every marine environment from the Arctic to the tropics. One species, the bull shark, even ventures into rivers and lakes as far as 2,000 miles from the nearest salt water...
...says Werbach, responds to aggressively hip, visual and interactive messages. Want to fight oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge? Set up booths to sell black snow cones. Want to protest the G.O.P.'s eco-bashing? Hang Newt Gingrich pinatas, provide a bat and whack for candy. To influence policy, call out the "dorm-storming" troops--activists who knock on college doors and urge students to E-mail their legislators. "We communicate in a different way," Werbach says. "We can sit here bemoaning Beavis and Butt-head, or we can learn from their appeal. A lot of people...
Appelbaum's conservative roots stretch back to Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he spent his first 16 years of life. It is a city of about one million, sustained by a manufacturing base that relies on government defense contracts. The chilly arctic air that keeps temperatures below freezing eight months of the year accompanied ominous political winds swirling about the Appelbaum family...