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Adventurous eaters can nibble on everything from bangers and mash (Britain) to buffalo steak and caribou stew (Northwest Territories). To sip with the caribou, there is clear water from an 8,000-year-old Canadian glacier. For those who wander through Vancouver itself--and everyone should--there is wide culinary variety, everything from Afghan to Mexican. On Granville Island, a yuppie heaven of high-priced condominiums and boutiques, several good restaurants on the water top coffee and dessert with a view of the 10 o'clock fireworks display, which signals the fair's nightly closing...
California's Yosemite National Park is not the usual place to track celebrities. But campers in the glacier-carved valley found themselves asking for autographs when Robert Redford showed up along with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel for the formal dedication of Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,900-ft. peak named for the great wilderness photographer. Redford, 48, talked about his concern for protecting natural areas and the impression Yosemite made on him when he first saw it at age ten. "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security," he declared. "Defense...
...their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella...
...potentially devastating impact of the greenhouse effect. It has long been suspected that increasing carbon dioxide levels would melt the polse ice caps leading to massive costial flooding and seriously disruption agricultural production, but recent studies have turned a possibility into a probability. The greenhouse effect has already caused glacier movements in the Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Still, more foreboding is that recent studies of the Ice Age 40,000 years ago suggest that the last glacier, movement coincided with a 50 percent rise in carbon dioxide levels. Given that the carbon dioxide level has risen by over 25 percent...
...will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...