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...million Number of seeds, representing all of the world's known crop varieties, to be safeguarded in a "doomsday vault" on a remote Arctic island 75% Estimated proportion of crop species believed to have been lost since...
...recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion to its impressive longevity. Canada, famous for hockey, waggish comedians and an unforgiving Arctic climate, is also home to one of the world's longest-ruling political parties. Canada's Liberals have reigned over the landmass stretching from the 49th parallel to the Arctic Ocean since 1993. In fact, the Liberals have held nearly unbroken power for most of the 20th century - a record...
Following four trips to the Arctic Circle and close to five years of research on the narwhal, Martin T. Nweeia, a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has discovered new information about the sensory abilities of the whale’s tusk. Nweeia discovered that the narwhal tusk is equipped with 10 million sensory endings that have the capability to detect changes in water temperature, pressure, osmotic gradients, and motion. According to Nweeia’s website, www.narwhal.org, the tusk is actually a tooth, shaped like a spiraled rod, which projects out of the male?...
...years past, Lee Kuan Yew's office was famous among visitors for its arctic air conditioning and Spartan furnishing. A few Chinese scrolls apart, there was little decoration and sometimes barely a sheet of paper to be seen. Singapore's founding father first moved into the office on the second floor of the former British governor-general's residence in 1971, having already served six years as Prime Minister. He retired in 1990 to become Senior Minister and later Minister Mentor, but still works out of the same rooms...
What happens next? Leaders on Capitol Hill will spend the rest of the year trying to reach an agreement between the House's legislation and the Senate's, whose version cuts only around $35 billion from the budget. Among the roadblocks: the Senate's bill authorizes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a provision dropped by the House because of opposition from moderate Republicans...