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...less than 60 seconds, Andy Gellis scored unassisted to cut the Polar Bear lead to one, Bill MacKenzie scored off a feed from Stevie Martin to knot the score, and Kevin McCall connected on an assist from freshman Bill Forbush to give Harvard a 4-3 edge...
Last summer, Crutzen declared that a large solar flare in 1972 must have doubled the amount of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 25 miles over the polar regions, and thus depleted the ozone over these areas by an amount he calculated at 20%. There was a way of checking his theory. A Nimbus satellite, in orbit at the time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure...
...Golden's excellent article [Jan. 5], as in most accounts of polar exploration, Scott has been highlighted for his South Pole expedition in 1912. I think it is important to remember, however, that Amundsen was not only the first to reach the pole but that all members of his party survived the expedition. Scott and his men perished...
...always do. Pope Paul called for peace on earth. The New York Times noted that April, with its whippoorwills, arrived on schedule soon after the departure of March and its curlews and gusty winds. On some fronts, though, we were losing fast. The ozone layer was dissolving and the polar ice caps melting. On the other hand, Venice stopped sinking...
...half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...