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...choose naughty ranting, the alternative might be ever more rapidly recycled nostalgia. This is how everyone from Tony Bennett to Tom Jones and Wayne Newton -- all once the polar opposite of hip -- can qualify as hip, given time. But this approach presents the danger of not only turning the avant-garde into a permanent revival tent but also having old mistakes pop right back up. Of course, then you have to rationalize them. "The '70s clothes that are being rehashed are so incredibly ugly, so intentionally ugly, that they actually could be perceived as a rebellion against propriety," the designer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Everyone Is Hip . . . Is Anyone Hip? | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...conditions at the South Pole have tracked an increase of half a centigrade degree every decade. This marks the fastest mercury rise on record and a pattern that many view as a warning sign pointing to global warming. Some of the cities at risk of being deluged by melting polar ice: Sydney, Bangkok and the American ports of New Orleans and Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW WORRIES ABOUT THE RISING TIDE | 6/24/1994 | See Source »

Proponents argued that few creatures would swim close enough to be deafened by the speakers, which will be anchored 3,000 ft. deep. Moreover, supporters said, the noise would be no louder than other sounds filling the sea, from the thunder of cracking polar ice to the roar of supertankers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underwater Boom Boxes | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...addition, Johnston says her family is taking extra precautions to prepare for an uncertain future. "We are putting an extra layer of ice covering on our igloo and we are teaching our polar bear how to attack on the word 'kill,' Johnston says...

Author: By Alberta Laktonen, | Title: Better Dead Than Red? | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Then in the third period, the Crimson came out attacking, as they scored five goals against a defeated group of Polar Bears...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Bowdoin Bowed at Bright | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

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