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Ah well, back to the Mississippi, where the French and the British waged constant warfare along their river boundary. In fact, the final battle of the Mississippi War took place as late as 1865. Only then, at the Battle of Prairie du Chien, did the combined British and American armies...
"Sometimes I think we are more explorers of an unknown continent that we are physicians or scientists," Torsten N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, says quietly. That continent is the brain, and the 22 years of research Wiesel calls only the "first steps" in its exploration have won him and...
Aluminous pink sunset on the planet Mars. The unexpected eruption of volcanoes on the tiny Jovian moon lo. Swirling storms on Jupiter. A continent-size landmass hidden under the thick, sulfurous clouds of Venus. The astonishingly beautiful and complex rings of Saturn.
Of course, there have been excuses, and one or two of them may have been justified. Last year, for instance, the Tigers surprised the heavily-favored Crimson by showing up with flippers and snorkel gear and then moving the game to the lost continent of Atlantis, hidden somewhere on the...
In an interview with TIME, Eppler dismissed Schmidt's concern, one essentially shared by the leaders of most Western countries, as alarmist. He gave the peace movement credit, somewhat dubiously, for pressuring the U.S. into setting a date for the resumption of arms talks with the Soviet Union. "The...