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After a quarter-century with the British Antarctic Survey, Mike Thomson is not easily impressed by icebergs. But the one that showed up in satellite photos earlier this year was the biggest he'd seen in years. Floating slowly out to sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, the frozen slab was about 600 ft. thick, 23 miles wide and 48 miles long. It was a megaberg roughly the size of Luxembourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG, BAD ICEBERG | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...until Thomson and his colleagues hopped aboard a plane this month for a closer view of the monster that they were truly shocked. The appearance of the iceberg was just one of several dramatic changes they could see along the Antarctic Peninsula. A part of the Larsen Ice Shelf--to which the iceberg had been attached--was broken up into rubble. And a huge tongue of ice that had connected the mainland with James Ross Island, just offshore, was gone. "For the first time in recorded history," says Thomson, "you could circumnavigate Ross Island. I was absolutely staggered by what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG, BAD ICEBERG | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...snow accumulates, new ice is constantly squeezing the old out to sea. But the disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf seems to be the result of a relatively recent--and perhaps ominous--change in Antarctica's climate. Over the past 50 years the average temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has risen 2.5[degrees]C, to -3[degrees]C. That's a much greater increase than for anywhere else in the world. Not only are ice shelves turning to slush, but plant life is also exploding, with vegetation in some spots increasing 25-fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG, BAD ICEBERG | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Thirdly, Mr. Rascoff argues that our liking "the 'Great Books' approach to learning" implies "a reverence for the fantastic power of words to shape our cultural horizons." That is true. He then criticizes "Peninsula's decision to go beyond words, or rather below them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Has Valuable Content | 3/15/1995 | See Source »

...murder is evil, whether the victims are Planned Parenthood receptionists or innocent, helpless babies; and furthermore, that the pro-choice movement, with the blood of over 30,000,000 innocents on its hands, is hardly in a position to denounce murder. Emil J. Kiehne '95 for the Council of Peninsula...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Has Valuable Content | 3/15/1995 | See Source »

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