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...produced numerous gems of reportage; in Arlington, Va. Marden arrived at the magazine in 1934 at 21, and over the next 64 years he retraced the transatlantic route of Christopher Columbus, unearthed dinosaur eggs in Madagascar, discovered the wreck of the H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific and helped pioneer the use of underwater photography...
...Allen. He works at least six hours a day, scanning new scientific literature and regularly charting fluctuations in the intensity of incoming cosmic rays. In a paper published last year in the prestigious Geophysical Research Letters, he reported new data from the Pioneer 10 and the two Voyager spacecraft, all still alive at the time and the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Those data proved that the effect of the solar wind, the charged particles emitted by the sun, reaches out more than 7.5 billion miles in all directions. The finding provided "beautiful evidence," Van Allen says...
...Saulieu, France. Late last month, La C?te d'Or was downgraded by rival food bible Gault-Millau, which gave it a 17-out-of-20 score, slipping from its previous 19. The only chef in the world to have a public company, Loiseau rose to fame as a pioneer of nouvelle cuisine and operated three other eateries in Paris. His death sparked criticism of the power of the rating systems. Loiseau once said, "If I lose a star, I'll kill myself...
...recent graduate of Amherst College, I can testify that snow-penis construction is a frequent Pioneer Valley phenomenon—at Smith College (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate,” Feb. 24). I would be interested in hearing Keel’s opinions on those artifacts, as “forceful” males are in no way involved in their creation, and the people most likely to defend them from destruction would be their female creators...
...poet’s voice could come to life with the kind of technology just coming into existence at that time,” he says. “[Packard] was a pioneer in speaking up for this kind of fieldwork...