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...broken up into huge fragments that floated like rafts on the earth's plastic core until they reached their present positions. Such theories, however, were consistently hooted down with the derision scientists so often reserve for new ideas. Wegener, who had already established a reputation as a polar explorer and meteorologist, was undaunted. After his recovery, he devoted his life to proving the theory of continental drift. In 1930 Wegener died in Greenland in a search for evidence. But other men were able to carry on where he left off. Today, with slight variations, the idea that the earth...
...bring skiers their long-awaited paradise. The U.S. Weather Bureau's six-month forecast, and almost all of the various Almanac's that purport to give accurate weather forecasts have predicted that February and March could degenerate into a series of heavy blizzards--something about the Gulf Stream and polar air masses...
...subjected to radiation perhaps ten times as powerful as that encountered by its predecessor, which escaped with only minor damage to its instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels and magnetic field; and the first measurements of Amalthea, smallest and innermost of Jupiter's 13 known moons.* Space Pioneer. No one is watching Pioneer 11's travels with more interest than another pioneer, Physicist James...
...with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth of a 3,000-mile-long gorge that cuts across the Red Planet like a Martian Grand Canyon. The second probe is to land near the north polar cap. Both sites were picked because they could contain traces of water -essential to all terrestrial life...
Pandas are popping up in the unlikeliest places, and so are polar bears, tigers, alligators, orangutans and dozens of other endangered species. They are seen on the fronts of men's ties, on the backs of women's slacks and peering from inside snuffboxes. The animal images are part of an expanding program by the U.S. branch of the World Wildlife Fund to raise money to study and set up preserves for species that are threatened with extinction. In return for a percentage of profits on products depicting these creatures, the fund has made deals with eight companies...