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Last week the National Geographic Society revealed the results of a yearlong study of the expedition's records. The Navigation Foundation reviewed celestial positions and ocean-depth soundings marked in the logs, and even examined the shadows in photographs to calculate the angle of the sun and help fix the locations in the pictures. The conclusion: Peary made it to within 8 km (5 miles) of the pole, close enough to confirm his place in history...
...around the world, citizens will stage a cacophony of events: parades, proclamations, protests, teach-ins, trash-ins and eco-fairs. In Seattle, residents will demonstrate against pollution in Puget Sound. Environmentalists in West Bengal, India, are planning a bicycle procession. Schoolchildren on Mauritius, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, will plant trees. And a team of climbers from the U.S., the Soviet Union and China intends to reach the summit of Mount Everest and clean up debris left by previous expeditions. If all goes as planned, at least 100 million people will take part in the largest global demonstration...
...also offended by the poet's insensitive wartime writings and the fact that Eliot filed for divorce from his emotionally crippled wife while in the United States, an ocean away from the woman to whom he had been married for 17 years...
First, PBHA must rid itself of any illusions of grandeur. PBHA opinions just don't matter. Will the endorsement of PBHA change an election? No. A PBHA endorsement is just a drop in an ocean of political attitudes...
...such intimate settings. For all his talk about taking steps only in consultation with U.S. allies, Bush knows that he and Gorbachev will decide what happens in Malta. If the President has indeed become more "philosophical," the Malta summit could turn out to be far more than the friendly ocean cruise Bush had originally proposed...