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...neither Appleton Arena (the Saints' ill-light, all-wood hockey cave) nor Cheel Arena (the Golden Knights' cafeteria/student center/hockey rink) is the type of place Harvard enjoys visiting...
...film uses the cutting edge technology of Computer Generated Imagery (which was responsible for the three-dimensional ballroom in Beauty and the Beast) to create the incredible tiger's head exterior of the Cave of Wonders, the interior tunnels of the cave and Aladdin's first magic carpet ride, reminiscent of the cave sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Aladdin's animation is the sum of knowledge accumulated from past efforts like Sleeping Beauty--for example, Jafar's transformation into a overpowering serpent in Aladdin far surpasses the visual impact of the witch's metamorphosis into a towering dragon...
...piecing together the sulfurous origins of Carlsbad and other caves, speleologists have done more than satisfy scientific curiosity. They have also laid the foundation for some promising new ideas in oil exploration. Hydrogen sulfide, which is sometimes emitted as buried organic material decomposes, often appears in petroleum fields. Core samples of rock produced during drilling suggest that some oil and gas deposits are trapped within ancient cave systems that formed hundreds of millions of years ago. "So, about five years ago, some of us started looking in modern caves to see what they could tell us about where to hunt...
These efforts at prevention will not eliminate accidents, however. "One of the biggest fears I have now is highway and railroad spills," says Nicholas Crawford, director of the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky. Two years ago, a freight train carrying hazardous chloroform jumped the tracks near Lewisburg, Tennessee. "If that train had derailed in Bowling Green, it would have been a catastrophe," Crawford says...
...looking at fossil specimens and studying current species, researchers have concluded that most cave dwellers started out at the entrance of the cave. As they and their descendants traveled deeper inside and away from sunlight, they began to lose their eyes and develop other sensory organs to compensate. But is this loss an active process or just a question of disuse? "That's been a raging debate ever since Darwin's time," Poulson says. "What we've found is that it's disuse. There is no natural selection to screen out any bad mutations that affect the eyes. So eventually...