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...young but spirited Harvard women's soccer team survived an arctic wind and the first period loss of its top scorer to crush the University of Vermont yesterday...
...superstition to Western man has produced some of the most expressive works of art known. The collection of Eskimo sculpture in the second Pucker-Safrai gallery is a perfect example of an art free of preconceptions about its own nature, unhampered by stultifying theories. These soapstone carvings of Arctic wildlife were created by artists who hunted the animals they sculpted. And apparently the best carvers are also the best hunters. It all has to do with "knowing" the subject prey, a fact long-familiar to military strategists...
...perhaps not entirely fair to compare two such different mediums from two such dissimilar cultures. Nevertheless it is interesting to consider the means by which an Eskimo and a Russian who emigrated to Paris in 1910 both manage to evoke the spirit of their milieus. The Arctic sculptures convey much of the vastness and harshness of life near the Poke and were carved almost instinctively. Chagall has depicted busy, crowded, complex European scenes and yet his inspiration seems likewise instinctual. Both collections illustrate folk traditions stretching back beyond memories. The difference lies in the ancestral memories...
...impact. After interviewing 300 environmental and economic experts and 1,000 natives in the region, Berger ruled last May that the consortium's line was unacceptable because it would endanger the habitat of many species of wildlife. Canada's Natural Energy Board backed Berger, thus killing the Arctic project...
...proposal will now go to Congress and the Canadian Parliament; both are expected to approve. The project will be privately financed; McMillian and his Canadian partners will own and operate the line under government supervision. Canadian environmentalists, who vigorously opposed the Arctic consortium's pipeline, are far less exercised about Alcan since it largely avoids uncontaminated areas. If all goes according to plan, the Alcan pipeline should be pumping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of gas a day to the U.S. by mid-1983. That is by no means enough to solve the U.S. shortage, but it would alleviate...