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...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
Last week an expedition led by Dr. Per F. Scholander of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution landed at Boothbay Harbor, Maine after spending eleven weeks around Hebron Fjord trying to find out what keeps the fish from freezing. Dr Scholander had a theory that their blood "supercooled," remaining liquid because ice crystals never get a chance to start forming in it. Ordinary water behaves in the same way if it is carefully chilled without stirring. The blood of the fish of course, is in constant motion through their hearts and vessels, so Dr. Scholander reasoned that the fish must have...
...takeoff, soaring through the air at 50 m.p.h., Ski-Jumper Arne Hoel could hear nothing but the wind in his ears. Then he caught the roar of the crowd: 100,000 Norwegian heias (hurrahs) swelling up from the packed slopes of Holmenkollen jump, on the edge of Oslo Fjord. A Norwegian ski crowd can tell a fine leap long before the landing...
That night, while the weather lay thick and foul over the Norwegian coast, the control tower at Oslo airport received a garbled message from the DC-3's pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...
...G.l.s. But 75% of all the Red Cross spends will go for men in the armed services, for veterans and their families. The post at Narsarssuak Fjord is only one of the 281 clubs, canteens and clubmobiles still maintained by 2,800 Red Cross workers overseas. The Red Cross would like to reduce the total, but military commanders beg them to stay: the self-reliant, battle-hardened G.l.s are gone, and in their place are bewildered youngsters in need of a stabilizing, familiar refuge. To suit the youngsters, the whole recreational program has been changed. Said one director:-"We have...