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...they have pulled up samples of frozen lake water clinging to the bottom of the ice cap that contain unmistakable evidence of microbial DNA. Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms. "Nobody," marvels John Priscu, a Montana State University microbiologist who has studied the samples, "thought there could be any life down there...
...have to go to bed? Why can’t we hold our breaths until we pass out? I’ve decided that some sick individual must go around America sucking out all the common sense from teenage brains and hiding it in a vault somewhere underground in Montana until sometime, well, sometime after college...
...outrageous diversity that is so rare elsewhere in the West. Like some lost explorer, I make little maps on scraps of paper about what I find, and I wonder what the future will bring. In Backtracking, Long quotes a wildlife biologist on the future of the bear in Montana: "Eighty years ago, there were grizzlies leaving their tracks on the beaches, right outside Los Angeles. Eighty years ago. I bet you have a living grandparent who was alive eighty years ago. Los Angeles is a different place now. Our job is to look ahead, eighty years from...
...Azel spent 25 nights in motel rooms and drove 4,500 miles to bring you a photo gallery of the people you might meet along the trail. Writer Joel Stein was the bravest of all, sampling the same fat-laden cuisine the explorers ate as he crouched by a Montana campfire...
...National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing how much they depended not only on heroism but also on the kindness of strangers--especially in the dozens of tribes they encountered. Author Rick Bass, who lives in a corner of Montana where during the time of Lewis and Clark grizzly bears roamed by the thousands, writes about their last stand in the face of relentless development...