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Six adventurers reach the South Pole by dogsled, but that is just the halfway mark in a journey across Antarctica. Admiral Peary's claim to have made it to the North Pole gets fresh support.
Steger's expedition has been better supplied than Scott's was. Fuel and food have been stashed at prearranged sites along the expedition's route. Each man wears 4.5 kg (10 lbs.) of insulated clothing and consumes daily some 1,030 g (36 oz.) of a high-energy diet (5...
Last week's narrow defeat of a Supreme Soviet motion to debate an end to one-party rule showed just how tenuous the authority of the Soviet Communist Party now is. Striking workers might bring about not only a collapse of power in Moscow but the snapping of links to...
A total collapse of the Soviet Union might create almost as many global problems as it solved. Regional despotisms like Fidel Castro's Cuba or Najibullah's Afghanistan would probably wither quickly, as might many Third World Communist insurgencies. The U.S. economy would benefit handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures...
With its meager funds, the FDA is responsible for monitoring 63,000 food firms, 14,000 drug companies, 13,000 medical-device manufacturers and 1,700 cosmetics houses. During the Reagan Administration, cutbacks at the FDA were seen by many probusiness advocates as one important means of unshackling industry. But...