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ENVIRONMENT: Life with a pack in the High Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...managed to set up camp next to a wolf den and, most astonishingly, accompany the pack during hunts. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Mech and Brandenburg went back the next year with a film crew to give the world its first close-up view of life among the Arctic wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Wolf Men Go Wild in The High Arctic | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...last major obstacle to freedom was a towering ridge of Arctic ice, 400 yds. wide and 30 ft. high. The Soviet icebreaker Admiral Makarov, which had been heading home when it was diverted to aid in the rescue, took nearly a day to reduce the barrier to rubble. By late afternoon a sister ship, the Vladimir Arseniev, plowed within 400 yds. of two California gray whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Free At Last! Bon Voyage! | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

NATURE: Three whales icebound in the Arctic spur a rescue effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Last summer there was Henry, a young whale who made a wrong turn and ended up in New York's polluted harbor before regaining his bearings. Then last week the sight of three battered and bloodied gray whales gasping for breath at holes in a thickening Arctic ice pack caused Americans to forget, for a moment or two, both the World Series and the Bush-Dukakis race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Helping Out Putu, Siku and Kanik | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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