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...place where the aurora borealis normally provides celestial beauty, Snow White's luminous apparition also signals caution. What will a new era of exploitation bring to the Arctic, one of the earth's last great uncharted regions? The vast area has long fascinated explorers, but it has just as long been the site of folly and exaggerated expectations. Over centuries, hundreds died in the doomed search for an ice-free Northwest Passage between Asia and Europe, many of them victims of ill-fated stabs at national and personal glory...
PRESENT DAY Luckily, we have better foreknowledge of what's headed for Earth than the dinosaurs did. "Asteroids won't change much in the next 1,000 years," Bottke says. So we're safe...
Rippon, now operated by Rolfe's son Nick Mills, is also significant because, situated on the banks of Lake Wanaka, it has what must surely be the most spectacular cellar-door point of sale on earth, attracting some 15,000 wine tourists a year. Peregrine Wines, too, has a robust cellar-door business, as do other wineries in Central Otago. But don't turn up at Two Paddocks. "We discourage it by being hard to find, because I like wandering around with my shirt off," says Neill, who prefers to drum up sales via a terse and amusing blog...
Number of square miles covered in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett using up-to-date Google Earth satellite images of Nevada...
...Earth, earth, riding your merry-go-round toward extinction," the poet Anne Sexton wrote. How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today...