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...little understood is not surprising, for it is a remote, otherworldly place that in many ways resembles early Mars more than contemporary Earth. And no place is more Martian in character than the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a wedge of rugged, rocky terrain stippled with ice-covered lakes and overhung by glaciers. No diminutive alpine plants cling to the slopes of these valleys. No rodents scurry amid the boulders and scree. No flies or mosquitoes whir through the air; no fish, mollusks or crustaceans dwell in the lakes and streams...
...just the man for the job. The resolutely uncontroversial Gore is the fitting embodiment of the Class of 1994, the Class that let controversy at Harvard suffer an ignominiously silent death. Certainly, the choice of the milquetoast Vice President promises a commencement free of the rancor that overhung last year's ceremony...
...immense, hand-blown stained- glass windows. In a brilliant conception, hundreds of colors splash across the nave in patterns that change throughout the day. "It is the church of light," says a mason at the site, "the light of God." The basilica, which is entered from a huge porch overhung with stained glass, is air-conditioned...
...first frames are unpeopled, long roving views of a tranquil Polish countryside through which runs a small river overhung with drooping trees. It is the Narew river. The scene is Chelmno, a rural Polish region in which, 40 years ago, more than 400,000 Jews were exterminated...
Luck actually has very little to do with the industry's cozy stance. Until 1975 the biggest producers acted as if it was more important to expand capacity than to make money. Even though the Government stood ready to buy aluminum for its strategic stockpile, an excess supply overhung the market, depressing prices. As Duncan Campbell, vice president of Montreal-based Alcan, which sells more than a quarter of its production in the U.S., puts it, "We went through our garden of Gethsemane in most of the 1970s basically because of oversupply. We were gouging each other...