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Also vulnerable is the floating apron of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica. During the winter, this apron effectively doubles the continent's size, then in summer it shrinks 80%. The interaction of deep ocean currents and sea ice is crucial to the vast "conveyor belt" that redistributes the sun's...
Some change in Antarctic climate is already noticeable. It seems to be snowing more often at the South Pole, an area remote from any obvious sources of additional moisture. In the continent's Dry Valleys region, the lake ice seems to be thinning. It actually rained briefly at the American...
Do these changes fall within the normal ebb and flow of climate variation on the continent? Or, in concert with other changes afoot around the world--the retreat of glaciers in Europe and North America, the increasing range of cold-intolerant plants and insects, the increase in extreme weather events...
Physicians Organizations are springing up across the continent either to bargain with HMOs for better terms or to offer their own health plans to employers. Last October, Primary Care LCC, a group of 170 physicians in the suburbs south of Boston, won a contract with Secure Horizons, a managed-care...
As an African, I found your story on Zaire [WORLD, March 24] to be insightful and revealing. A political and economic revolution is going on in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, thanks to the brilliance and iron will of Uganda's Yoweri Museveni. He has turned Uganda around...