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...glacial stream, protected from currents and preserved by the frigid -6 degrees C temperature, the Iceman lay undisturbed for more than 53 centuries. And centuries more might have passed before he was discovered were it not for a foehn that last year delivered tons of North African desert sand to the Alpine ridges. "This is a common phenomenon," explains climatologist Dreiseitel, "but in 1991 it coincided with a winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps that summer, glaciers retreated -- including Similaun. Even then...
CAPTAIN ROBERT SINGH never tired of walking in the forest with his little son Toby. It was, of course, a tamed and gentle forest, guaranteed to be free of dangerous animals, but it made an exciting contrast to the rolling sand dunes of their last environment in the Saudi desert -- and the one before that, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But when the Skylift Service had moved the house this time, something had gone wrong with the food-recycling system. Though the electronic menus had fail-safe backups, there had been a curious metallic taste to some...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St.,Cambridge. Giant Sand and Barbara Maning onFriday, Oct. 9. Talking to Animals on Saturday,Oct. 10. Call 492-0082 for more information...
...agonizing dilemma, thanks to a remarkable new procedure that allows doctors to test days-old embryos for genetic abnormalities outside the womb. The technique -- which begins with in vitro, or "test-tube," fertilization and then involves plucking a single cell from an embryo the size of a grain of sand -- has already produced a healthy baby girl for a British couple with a 1 in 4 chance of having a child with cystic fibrosis, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. It is now being used to detect several inherited ailments, including hemophilia, Duchenne...
...halted; populations of bald eagles, seabirds, otters and other animals plummeted; and at least 35 archaeological sites were sullied. Now, after four summers of intensive oil scooping and shoreline scrubbing, seals, whales and bald eagles are plentiful and the fishing season is in full swing. The water, rocks and sand look pristine once more...