Word: polarizing
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...tend the dogs in sled races, such as the Iditarod that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last year he led a 500-mile canoe trip down the Yukon...
...parties are...such polar opposites right now,” Bourke said. “We found that in order to win, they need to move to the middle...
...Abrams and his partner gave the island a deadly (unseen) monster. Fine. A lot of writers might have done that. But with Abrams, there was also a polar bear in the jungle. There was a mad Frenchwoman marooned on the island for 16 years. There was a scary Canadian guy named Ethan living among the crash survivors, although he was not on the plane's manifest. "We were saying from the beginning, 'This is the level of reality we're dealing with,'" says Abrams. "If you're not up for that, you won't like where the show goes...
...Hawaii. When this year's Alias season premiere failed to blow his socks off, he reshot the whole thing, in five days. The fans pay him back in cultlike intensity. Fans on the Internet spin extended Lost theories: that the castaways are dead and in limbo, that the polar bear et al. are manifestations of the characters' subconscious, that the show is a religious allegory...
...Arctic Oscillation, or AO for short, is defined as the back-and-forth pattern of low and high pressure between high polar latitudes and the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere. The AO encircles the whole of the Arctic and also extends from the sea's surface to the stratosphere, an ethereal region of the atmosphere some seven to 30 miles above the earth that forecasters thought had little bearing on day-to-day weather. Thanks to the discovery of the AO, that view of the stratosphere is changing. Among other things, scientists studying the AO have connected sudden warmings...