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...this summer as part of Project FAMOUS, the American submersible Alvin and its French counterparts Archimède and Cyana explored one of the earth's last great frontiers: the rugged, seismically active rift valley that cleaves the floor of the Atlantic almost all the way from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. Last week, as the scientists who took part in FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) returned home from their expedition to the bottom of the sea, they reported that their little craft had discovered important new clues to the secrets of continental drift...
...increasing Soviet naval presence. No longer will the movement of Greek troops be coordinated by NATO, nor will they participate in joint maneuvers and training exercises. It is even possible that Greece will withdraw from the alliance's computer-operated, early-warning radar system, which runs from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Asia Minor. This would leave part of the periphery of the Warsaw Pact unmonitored by ground radar...
...liberalized its electives. Cadets in the social-studies department, for example, can take political philosophy, microeconomics and political and cultural anthropology. During the summer, as part of their military training, midshipmen ship out on nuclear submarines and cadets can earn helicopter-pilot or paratroop wings or take ranger or arctic training. Officials say that this "adventure training" is not the least of the charms of the service academies...
...Archipelago was born with the first gun salvos of Aurora" -the battle cruiser that signaled Lenin's seizure of power in October 1918. The "alma mater," as Solzhenitsyn calls it, of all subsequent forced-labor camps was established under Lenin in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arctic. Later, Stalin made slave labor a dominant factor in the Soviet economy...
...Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round...