Word: polarization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director of the J.P.L.: "It's hard to say where...
...beautiful but barren. Fifty times as big as Denmark, which has ruled it since 1721, it is 85% covered by an icecap up to two miles thick. The rest is rocky terrain virtually devoid of vegetation. On the shores, steep granite and basalt cliffs plunge into ice-choked fjords. Polar bears prowl the far north, reindeer roam the western coastal mountains, and a few hardy sheep are herded in the far south...
...threat of the "greenhouse effect," the possibility that all-out burning of coal would pour so much carbon dioxide into the air as to keep heat from escaping out of the atmosphere into space. Theoretical consequences that some scientists like to cite: warming of the earth, melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of the world's seacoast cities. In fact, there is no known way of producing energy without some environmental danger...
...game, Sue St. Louis went behind the goal and whipped a pass out to fellow attackman, Ellen Seidler, who quickly fired it into the goal for the first tally of the contest. St. Louis followed Seidler's lead moments later when she stuffed the ball past the bewildered Polar Bear goalie...
...quick 2-0 lead, the Crimson defense lapsed just long enough for Bowdoin's Katrina Altmaier to slip in and score the Polar Bears' lone goal. From then on the Harvard team used its airtight defense to hold the Bowdoin squad scoreless...