Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that maxim, the ambitious, expansive Greek shipping magnate was a king of kings. Until he died of bronchial pneumonia in Paris last week at age 69, after months of suffering from myasthenia gravis (a debilitating disease that weakens the body muscles), Onassis had flamboyantly ruled an empire of ocean tankers and airlines, banks, real estate holdings and trading companies. His total worth, despite financial reverses in recent months, was estimated to be at least $500 million...
Though this scenario for the beginning of the ice age has been well documented by fossil records, scientists have long been uncertain about what caused the cooling. Now, after studying cylindrical-core samples of ocean sediment dug up by the deep-sea drilling ship Glomar Challenger, two University of Rhode Island researchers have found evidence that may help provide the answer. The telltale position of layers of volcanic ash found in the cores by Geologists James Kennett and Robert Thunell suggests that the first great ice age could have been set off by a worldwide series of volcanic eruptions...
...huge canal would connect the Pechora River-which flows north into the Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean-with the southward-flowing Kama River, a tributary of the mighty Volga (see map page 82). Once the link is made and the necessary dams constructed, part of the Pechora's water will be diverted downhill into the Kama and thence into the Volga, which is the Caspian's major source of new water. The increased flow should stabilize the level of the inland sea. At a recent meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the Soviets...
Other American scientists, however, warn that reducing the northward flow of the Pechora's relatively warm fresh-river water could reduce the temperature of the Arctic Ocean and cause the ice to expand. Or the Arctic Ocean could become saltier, resulting in a lower freezing point and causing the ice to melt. In either case, the river-reversal scheme has the potential to cause major climatological repercussions...
...academic community, but he is well respected. In a self-portrait published in the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Class of 1947, Fisher compared his position in public service to that of the forsaken man in the sinking boat who pumps furiously despite obvious gains by the ocean. The academics, Fisher explains now, his voice assuming a mock gravity, "are studying the situation, doing a psychoanalysis of what a funny attitude this Fisher's got." By no means irreverent, Fisher concedes. "The more time the scholar takes, the better, the closer he will come to the truth...