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...reaching work, were forced to seek out virtually unattainable hotel rooms and suffered all the icy vicissitudes common last week to so many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this...
...frigid Fulton Street, the dilapidated main drag of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, idle young men were warming their hands at trash-barrel fires and talking about their future. Life is bleak even in the best of times for people on Fulton Street, where hustling and mugging are commonplace. It has been even worse lately because of New York City's empty coffers and the continued loss of factory jobs to other parts of the country. Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter's election has brought a measure of wary optimism. Explained Community Worker Eduardo Standard: "They expect...
These tests will allow Martian soil samples to incubate longer in order to give any microbes present a better chance to grow. The experiments will be run at temperatures closer to the frigid levels that prevail on Mars. Also, in a search for life that may have burrowed deeper into the Martian soil to escape ultraviolet radiation bombarding the surface, one of the landers will try to dig 30.5 centimeters (1 foot) deep for a soil sample. Explains Klein: "We want to play out our whole set of cards before we make our best judgment on the question of life...
Contending with a decrepit portable floor and a frigid temperature as well as the MIT basketball team, the Radcliffe basketball squad posted an easy 57-25 win over an outclassed MIT team, advancing its record...
...region's political instability made dependence on Middle Eastern crude risky. Realizing that its other concessions in the Middle East and North Africa might be nationalized too?in fact several of them have been?BP's management foresightedly stepped up the search for oil in politically friendly (though environmentally frigid) climates, from the North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought in a North Sea gas field in 1965. BP's competent but colorless management has never been strong on marketing, preferring to sell...