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Some scientists are equally concerned about the smaller but worsening ozone loss at mid-latitudes. The mechanism behind polar ozone holes was not predicted before its discovery. Could there be an undiscovered reason for ozone to vanish over temperate zones as well? Maybe so. On Jan. 12 the ER-2 swooped south instead of north. Says Anderson: "We discovered to our shock that there was ClO all the way down to the Caribbean." It was a very thin layer with concentrations of only 0.1 part per billion -- but this was much higher than anyone had predicted...
...sure just how such concentrations of the chemical got there or whether it is destroying ozone. It may be that some of the ClO-rich air from the polar vortex has split off and headed south on its own -- a phenomenon that has been observed in the past. And while ozone depletion has not been directly observed, the chemistry over the Caribbean appears to be right. There is ClO; there are plenty of dust particles from Pinatubo; there is sunlight. NASA's Kurylo thinks significant ozone loss is in fact happening in the tropics. Says Harvard's Anderson: "This...
...Wild Kingdom. Several illustrations include furry/feathered voyeurs: seagulls. (With open beaks.) Horses, frequently white. Two white wolves. A polar bear. Even cows. But they don't watch the lovers. They chew their...
...some of the tangible accomplishments of modern liberalism. Each of the chapters outlines a specific issue or fundamental ideological belief--like the historical record of war and peace or the view of innate morality versus immorality of humans--and points out the virtues of liberalism when compared to its polar opposite, conservatism...
...feds. But that shouldn't surprise Rhode Islanders. Heritage collapsed earlier this year, taking the state's system of 45 privately insured banks and credit unions with it. The bank's fugitive president, Joseph Mollicone Jr., who is accused of embezzling $13 million, was initially a target of the Polar Cap probe. On the same day last fall that state examiners were inside Heritage reviewing the books, one of Saccoccia's aides turned up at a teller's window with $52,600 in cash...