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...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 as a laboratory...
This disturbs U.S. officials. Says NSF Chief Polar Scientist Frank Williamson: "You can't tell me that a continent that occupies the whole bottom of the world isn't valuable. But our current investment here consists of six airplanes, seven helicopters and just over 1,000 people. It's minuscule compared to what we might be able to gain." From all the hints the Antarctic is giving, the list of possible gains is likely to keep growing. -By Frederic Golden. Reportedby David DeVoss/McMurdo Sound
...Pakistan scientist who befriended the literary. Gazette reporter was recently fired because he "was either a communist of the trend of a communist." Dennis said. The research at the Pakistan laboratory is funded by U.S. federal agencies, primarily the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Aid for International Development--not the CIA Dennis added...
...Ward, with a little help from Steinbeck, has peopled the row with an assortment of all-too-familiar oddballs. There's Doc (Nick Nolte), a handsome, lazy scientist: "the seer," a dotty wise-man-of-the-sea type: and Mac and his boys, a bumbling gang of filthy but lovable squatters that Ward milks for all the slapstick...
Edwin Land, a tinkering scientist, founded the Polaroid Corp. in 1937 to make nonglare lenses. In 1948 he marketed a new camera that could produce pictures immediately. Competitors like Eastman Kodak thought it was a gimmick, but the product was an overwhelming success and opened up a whole new industry. When Land retired as head of the company in 1980, he had accumulated Polaroid stock worth more than $75 million...