Word: poled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet cruise missiles. The project, known as the North Warning System, is part of a more than $5 billion U.S. plan to modernize northern air defenses and safeguard the continent against attacks launched over the North Pole...
...there have also been gems. One is Icebound in the Antarctic: Shackleton, a magnificent four-hour drama about the British polar explorer, starring David Schofield. Henry Shackleton was one of history's most intriguing also-rans: his first expedition to Antarctica missed being the first to reach the South Pole by just 97 miles; a later one had to be aborted when his ship became trapped in the Antarctic ice. But few dramas have told a more inspiring tale of man against nature or better conveyed the excitement of a great period of exploration. Another winning import is Solo...
...youngsters to eat the "breakfast of champions," and despite the intervening years, Bob Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want...
...spacecraft detected a tenth ring and ten tiny, previously undiscovered moons and discerned craters and other surface features on the five large moons that until now had been seen only as featureless spots of light through telescopes. It observed a reddish-brown haze at the planet's north pole and tracked cloud formations as they passed over the middle latitudes. The movement of the clouds seemed to confirm earlier estimates that a Uranian day is about 16 hours long. The spacecraft also determined that Uranus has a magnetic field, and measured...
FOOTNOTE: *Uranus lies on its side, its axis of rotation more or less perpendicular to those of the other eight planets. Its north pole now points at the sun and thus receives more solar radiation than other regions of the planet...