Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting drunken townspeople in from the freezing cold. "They're simply bored," says Mrs. Sadie Neakok, 51, the district magistrate in Barrow. "There's nothing better to do than get drunk." Recreation is limited to basketball at the school gym, unreliable cable television, movies at the Polar Bear Theater (with special weekend showings of X-rated films), bingo and a week of Eskimo sports between Christmas and New Year...
...south pole, one of the few areas where Mariner's cameras have been able to peer through the huge dust storm that still obscures much of the planet, the surface is also remarkably smooth, leading some scientists to theorize that the region was scoured clean by glaciers as the polar cap grew during Martian winters and then receded again. If glaciers were indeed responsible, their presence would indicate that there is more water in the polar cap (which is composed largely of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice) than anyone had supposed. Mariner has also discovered four craters that...
...even the oppressors can process. Freire rejects liberal or progressive reforms initiated by seemingly well-meaning members of the ruling class as attempts to preserve the oppressor's power, "Let us carry out reforms before the people carry out a revolution." But people do not live their lives on polar ends of abstract dialectics, and to spit in the palm of an outstretched, helping hand in the name of the future revolution is to arrogantly assert one's own self-righteousness and to deny the existence of Daniel Ellsberg's. Freire's own experience shows some of the problems...
That improvisation quickly produced rewards. Mariner found an opening in the dust clouds near the south polar cap and managed to get another look at an area that had been marked by long, frost-covered ridge lines and craters during the flybys of Mariners 6 and 7 in 1969. To the surprise of scientists, the pictures showed that the ridge lines were no longer covered by frost, many craters had vanished entirely, and the surface was remarkably smooth. Said Astronomer Bradford Smith: "This whole area looks like it's been planed off." Some scientists speculated that the most logical...
Photographing Deimos. There was disagreement about the composition of the glaciers. Carl Sagan, director of Cornell University's Planetary Studies Lab, suggested that the glaciers are frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), the major constituent of the polar cap. Smith felt that dry ice would not flow like a glacier. "The only thing that does," he said, "is water." Mariner's instruments did detect water vapor in the atmosphere above the south polar cap, suggesting that it had risen from the ice below. Those readings encouraged scientists who still hope to find some form of ife, however rudimentary...