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Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...
...Valerie Marchant...
...Valerie Marchant...
...VALERIE MARCHANT is a senior reporter who has written various education stories for TIME. "While working on this story," she says, "I was impressed and touched by the enormous respect and fondness that all the teachers I interviewed felt for their students." The role teachers play, she believes, is as significant as that of parents...
...Reported by Valerie Marchant and Elaine Rivera/New York, Matt Baron/Chicago, Helen Pitt/San Francisco, Deborah Fowler/Houston and Dee Gill/Tampa