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...himself. The young Englishman did not start out at the easel, studiously painting still lifes and landscapes. Instead, his art came out of his life, out of his long walks in the wilderness, out of the miles he has traversed in places as diverse as England, Africa and the Arctic. His first works of art were direct factual documentations of his wanderings--maps and photographs carefully recording the trips. Sometimes Long would establish a program; in "164 Stones, 164 Miles" he walked across Ireland, placing a nearby stone on the road at every mile along...
...prevailing winds flattened, and fewer chill breezes were blowing down from the north. High-level winds above the 40th parallel (near Philadelphia) were running at extra high speeds, while those to the south slackened. In effect, explains Donald Gilman, the service's chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather. For the Northeast as well as other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, Gilman's fence meant a December of mild temperatures and little snowfall...
Stenmark, 23, is something of a skiing oddity, a man from a Nordic country who excels in alpine events and regularly beats the Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Italians and Frenchmen, who have long dominated downhill skiing. He grew up in tiny Tarnaby (pop. 600), just 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and learned to ski on the gentle slope behind his home. Tutored by a father who was a devotee of skiing, Stenmark was Ingemar Stenmark preps for the Olympics at a World Cup race in France a budding virtuoso...
...sport to prime time in 1970 with Monday Night Football. Since then just about everything except golf has been played at night, doubling in a decade, to nearly 1,400 hours in 1979, the amount of sport on network TV and giving the fans World Series games played in arctic conditions and, of course, Thursday Night Football...
...Gulf of Mexico, account for 14% of the nation's current domestic oil production and 23% of its gas. The next place they hope to develop as a major energy source is a tough one: the floor of the ice-jammed Beaufort Sea, about 275 miles above the Arctic Circle, off Alaska's nearly barren north coast...