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...head researcher position is a full-time job, but Dorfman is also one of the section's more prolific reporters. A biology major at Yale, where she was also science editor of the Yale Daily News, she has covered everything from the Neolithic Iceman found in an Alpine glacier to the Exxon Valdez oil spill to genetic engineering. She was also one of the organizing hands behind TIME's intensive treatment of the 1992 Earth Summit. Still, Dorfman, who keeps a small collection of fossils herself, has a fondness for things that come out of the past to enlighten...
VACATIONERS SEEKING peace and quiet might want to consider a survey of the favorite destinations of 5,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycle owners, taken by an owners' group. The top picks in order: the Black Hills and the national parks of Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Rocky Mountain...
...frozen 5,300-year-old body hacked from an Alpine glacier provides an unprecedented window on prehistoric Europe...
Uncertain about who had jurisdiction, Markus Pirpamer, owner of the shelter, called police on both sides of the border. The Italian carabinieri, believing the body was that of an ill-fated climber, showed no interest. Their Austrian counterparts, who had already pulled eight corpses out of glaciers that summer, said they would investigate by the next afternoon. Pirpamer decided the next morning to go see for himself, and was flabbergasted: "I had seen bodies come out of the glacier," he recalls, "but this was nothing like them. Bodies trapped in the glacier are white and waxy and usually chewed...
While the Iceman lay exposed, a bird might have torn the small hole found on the back of his head, but a heavy snowfall soon covered the body, protecting it from further depredation. Soon the glacier moved in, flowing over the basin. "We know that if he had been trapped in the glacier," says glaciologist Gerhard Markl, "the body and the implements would have been ground up beyond recognition. When we recover bodies from a glacier, we often find a leg here, an arm there...