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...their responsibilities as soon as possible. They inherited Papua from Britain in 1906 and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a U.N. trustee. Together, the two territories constitute the eastern half of the world's second largest island (after Greenland); the rest is the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya...
...throughout history, appealed to diverse peoples. It was played by the contemplative Hindus, the holy warriors of Islam, the chivalrous knights who were allowed to visit ladies fair in their boudoirs to play a board, and by the rambunctious sea rovers who had carried the game to Greenland (perhaps even to North America) by the 12th century. Dr. Karl Menninger, an aggressive Freudian analyst, once declared: "It seems to be necessary for some of us to have a hobby in which aggressiveness and destructiveness are given opportunity for expression, and since I long ago gave up hunting (because...
...help solve a major evolutionary riddle: How did the webbed feet of the amphibians evolve from the paddle-shaped fins of their fish ancestors? Possibly his creature may be kin to a little (3-ft.-long) lizard-like amphibian called Ichthyostega, whose remains have been found in Greenland. The outward-pointing feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield is hopeful of locating an even bigger prize: a complete fossil...
...bureau. He also played copy editor, assignment maker, staff psychiatrist, and domestic-affairs counselor. When gas masks and helmets were needed for reporters covering the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Goodpaster found them. Or Arctic underwear for reporters on their way to Greenland...
...Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering some of the ill-fated explorer's papers, Mikkelsen and a single companion were marooned for two years...