Word: polars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Antarctica gets less precipitation than the Sahara (less than 2 in. a year), nearly two-thirds of the world's fresh water is locked up in the polar icecap. Even bacteria are barely able to cling to life in the interior, but the coastal regions abound with seals and penguins, to say nothing of the whales that come from round the world to winter in Antarctica's icy, protein-rich waters...
...station also acts as a laboratory for the study of human behavior in isolation. Last week the season's final flight took off from the pole. Left behind until November, when flights resume, were 17 people, including one visiting Soviet scientist, an atmospheric physicist. During the long polar night, radio will be their only contact with the outside world...
...greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits radical Painter Diego Rivera against Nelson Rockefeller in discussion of the artist's huge and bustling Radio City...
...residents of Churchill, Man., don't want the polar bears rummaging and playing in their town [Dec. 21], why don't they bury their garbage and lock their doors? The polar bear protection law in Canada is great. Mike Voss Pickering...
...into our back porch, where we kept our meat, and Mother chased him out with a broom." Al Chartier, 37, a local guide, recalls sitting on the banks of a nearby river this September while his wife and three daughters took a chilly swim. Suddenly he glimpsed a polar bear lying in the grass on the opposite shore watching them. Chartier quietly fetched his gun. But the bear never made a move toward the bathers. Says Chartier: "When they finished their swim, the bear got up and left...