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Melting Martian Frost. Tombaugh found that the largest crater in the best Mariner photograph is located where visual observations have spotted an oasis. Parallel markings in the southern part of the crater coincide with the position of a short canal mapped by Astronomer Percival Lowell...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, wrote Robert Frost, and in this novel that something is the Pennsylvania Dutch peasantry on the farm lands and the immigrant Irish and Polish serfs in the coal "patches" upriver. A farm boy, intent on exploring the grounds, dies impaled on the spiked wall, and George bugs out to New York, leaving his lawyer to slip $500 in hush money to the family. Why does a man like this want to be a gentleman? It seems that "becoming a gentleman" was an obsession that Father Abraham had developed and that...
Under Gelsthorpe, 44, Ocean Spray is making grants to agricultural schools to find new strains of cranberries, also supporting medical research to study the berries' beneficial effects. Its cranberry growers, who in the fall must frequently flood their bogs to protect the delicate plants from frost, now use picking machines that take the place of 20 men working with the oldtime hand scoops. Ocean Spray has also turned to exports, now ships its products to 27 nations. Gelsthorpe is concentrating initially on Britain, hoping to show Britons what their ancestors missed by not emigrating with the Pilgrims...
...ramifications had-for the moment-been averted. It remained to be seen if Rhodesia's blacks would be as patient as Wilson was willing to be. As he boarded his R.A.F. Comet in the bright sunlight of Salisbury Airport Saturday morning, Wilson left behind a frozen silence. But frost, in the Rhodesian context, is better than fire...