Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. CLEVELAND AMORY, 81, best-selling author and animal lover extraordinaire who fought for the rights of underdogs the world over; in New York City. Amory chronicled his most famous rescue--of his pet cat Polar Bear--in The Cat Who Came for Christmas. But he was also well versed in the habits of two-legged creatures, penning a sardonic series on society's upper crust...
...Solid-Color Vest: $48, S-XXL, H.Gray/Bluegrass, Malden 12 oz. polar fleece, Lycra Binding...
...center of the plot is the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, which plans to reposition the globe so that the Earth's climate will be universally benign, like everlasting spring ("Polar bears will soon have to use artificial ice"). In Astor's view, "this period--A.D. 2000--is by far the most wonderful the world has as yet seen." But the world has grown too small, which is why the book's main characters take off for Jupiter in a spaceship equipped with booster rockets. "The future glory of the human race," concludes Astor, "lies in exploring at least the solar...
...week's end space scientists were buzzing about fresh confirmation of year-old evidence that there is a dusting of polar ice on the moon--ice that could help a community of astronauts survive. Almost lost in the excitement was news from a far more distant and far wetter world. According to the crispest images yet from the Galileo Jupiter probe, there is more reason than ever to think that beneath the icy skin of the Jovian moon Europa there lies a warm, amniotic sea in which heat, moisture and organic chemicals may have already allowed life to take hold...
WASHINGTON: Message from the Lunar Prospector: There's water in them there craters. Or to be more precise, ice. The $65 million NASA probe thinks it has found between 10 and 100 million tons of the stuff, buried in polar craters -- enough to fill a lake two miles square and 35 feet deep. That kind of quantity, presumably deposited by comets and asteroids, could help us build oxygen-breathing lunar colonies and interplanetary refueling stations -- in the long...