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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter, the temperature will rise to 70° F or so one day, and the next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous or the unavoidable. "And the fence blew down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Pole Vault--1. A. Hawkey. 159 2. N. Smith 3. A. Thomas 4 N. Jones 4. Pr. Henechka...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women Thinclads 2nd in ivies, Men 5th at Heps | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

During the six-month austral, or southern, summer, when the South Pole is bathed in sunlight 24 hours a day, geologists from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand explored the rocky mountains of Northern Victoria Land. They found signs of such valuable metals as tantalum and lithium, used for making high-strength alloys. The Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains, similar to South Africa's Bushveld, may have platinum and chromium, both strategic metals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Scramble on the Polar ice | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...most intriguing American outpost is at the pole itself. Located under a giant geodesic dome, the station serves as an invaluable high-altitude (9,200 ft.) geophysical observatory. Because of the pristine quality of the air and the funnel-like shape of the earth's magnetic field at the antipodes, scientists are able to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and register the influx of cosmic rays from space (a hint of solar activity) with much greater ease than at any other place on the earth's surface. The station also acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Scramble on the Polar ice | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Though information gathered at the polar station is scientifically valuable and could even help doctors select and prepare the best possible crews for long space journeys, the reason for the American presence at the pole is as much geopolitical as geophysical. It gives the U.S. a unique toehold in all the Antarctic claims except the Norwegian, which stops short of the pole proper. Says Bernhard Lettau, polar oceanography manager for the National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S.'s $67.4 million-a-year Antarctic scientific effort: "The pole is highly symbolic. By being here we maintain our status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Scramble on the Polar ice | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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