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...spurt of fine black oil sprays the surrounding drifts. Moments later, a helicopter whips up a snowstorm as it takes off to ferry equipment to construction crews that are dynamiting the frozen earth to lay new pipelines. Farther to the north in the Nadym gas fields hard by the Arctic Circle, the long nights are thunderously lit by giant flares of blazing gas. It will soon light Western Europe and may one day heat New York. Two thousand miles to the southeast, gigantic cranes rear against the brilliant wilderness sky as they erect the skeleton of a new dam, half...
...should be obliged to feel guilty. "I wish at this point I could announce publicly I had had a venereal disease," Ms. Greer concluded. "Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite...
...levels have dropped alarmingly over the past decade-by 10 ft. in the Aral alone. A scientist says that the only way to restore the Caspian Sea and to slake the "colossal thirst" of users along the way, is to turn rivers now flowing north to the Arctic Ocean southward. Some international scientists fear that without the usual supply of easily frozen fresh water reaching the northern seas, the polar icecap will recede-and the consequent melting will flood the world's seacoasts...
...Back in 1918, when arctic conditions prevailed in Ithaca and the snows were 3 ft. and 4 ft. deep, my friend and I donned our oak skis with leather straps and went cross-country through the most beautiful hills in central New York. Every now and then there would be a stretch of farm land where you could travel a mile or more, dropping 500 ft. in the process. It was very exhilarating, exciting and healthy. No "dogging." jumping, or stunting, just wonderful movement over sparkling snow. This was skiing as I remember...
...care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist who has done research in the Arctic: "The polar night has a tendency to bring out the least desirable elements in human behavior-envy, jealousy, suspicion, egotism, irritability...