Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polar conflict of the play is be tween love and empire or desire and duty, with Egypt symbolizing one and Rome the other. Director Phillips sets up a telling counterpoint between the brisk, businesslike military scenes and the perfumed enchantment of the amorous interludes...
Some climatologists dispute whether there is, in fact, a cooling trend; they foresee instead a worldwide warming trend that could melt polar ice and raise the level of the oceans and possibly inundate coastal cities. But whatever their feelings about long-term trends, scientists generally agree that the world's climate is entering a period of more widely varying conditions that will make planning for agricultural production difficult. The experts are also worried about the impact of man-made pollution, which makes predictions based on historical weather cycles less reliable. "If humans interfere, we cannot say for sure that...
...less than 60 seconds, Andy Gellis scored unassisted to cut the Polar Bear lead to one, Bill MacKenzie scored off a feed from Stevie Martin to knot the score, and Kevin McCall connected on an assist from freshman Bill Forbush to give Harvard a 4-3 edge...
Last summer, Crutzen declared that a large solar flare in 1972 must have doubled the amount of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 25 miles over the polar regions, and thus depleted the ozone over these areas by an amount he calculated at 20%. There was a way of checking his theory. A Nimbus satellite, in orbit at the time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure...
...Golden's excellent article [Jan. 5], as in most accounts of polar exploration, Scott has been highlighted for his South Pole expedition in 1912. I think it is important to remember, however, that Amundsen was not only the first to reach the pole but that all members of his party survived the expedition. Scott and his men perished...