Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That eminent sport psychologist and voyager Casey Stengel once analyzed the Canadian scene: "Well, you see they have those polar bears up there and lots of fellows trip over them trying to run the bases and they're never much good anymore except for hockey or hunting deer...
...does the majority's implication that surrounding the creche with other, strictly secular, symbols negates the endorsement ring true. It's like saying if the city put a cross on the lawn of its City Hall and surrounded it with candy canes, reindeer and polar bears, the cross would no longer signify any real religious endorsement. What if the symbol had been a Star of David or a Koran...
Vandenberg Air Force Base was chosen as a shuttle facility because it offers ideal conditions for launching spacecraft into polar orbit. Shuttles lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida enter a more or less equatorial orbit and fly over only part of the earth's surface. Spacecraft sent from Vandenberg into polar orbit will slice across the earth's twirling path and pass over a slightly different strip of the globe on each swing. Satellites placed in polar orbit have the capability of photographing any section of the earth. This gives them an intelligence-gathering potential significantly...
...Cape Canaveral. The exact mission will be top secret, as will all shuttle flights from Air Force-run Vandenberg, but it has been reported that the main job on that first flight will be to ferry two satellites into space. Since Discovery will be placed in a polar orbit, its ground track will cover the Soviet Union. One of those satellites could be a new hush-hush communications package, and the other a device equipped with infrared sensors to spot Soviet missile launches. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by William R. Doerner/Vandenberg Air Force Base...
...Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...