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Using an equatorial mount (one of the axes parallel to the polar axis of the earth), the Agassiz radio telescope may be focused on a special spot in the sky for long periods of time, simply by compensating for the earth's rotation...
...colorful as the spectacle itself. When great luminous curtains seemed to swish and crackle in the sky, Norsemen knew that Valkyries were riding abroad. Midwestern Indians looked up and thought they saw the fires of northern medicine men making stew of their enemies. Today's Eskimos watch the polar pyrotechnics and mumble about the spirits of the dead. Modern science has still another theory...
Much of the world's weather is manufactured in those frigid air masses where the aurora brightens the long polar nights. Dr. Menzel believes that as much energy goes into the display as the earth normally absorbs from the heat and light of a day in the sun. If further observations prove him correct, even meteorologists in latitudes far from the pole will be checking on the faraway fireworks of the aurora borealis before they make their forecasts...
Today, when almost every nation that can afford Arctic expeditions is sending them into the field, Nye's stay-at-home equations may prove to be a valuable key to polar secrets...
...escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...