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...Lonely Planet guide to the continent. But over the past decade, tourism to the region has trebled, according to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators. The marathoners aren't the only adventurous souls holidaying in the Antarctic summer. A geophysicist who leads a tour at Vernadsky, a Ukrainian station visited by the runners two days after their race, says his base receives a ship just about every day this time of year. Data from this research outpost (operated, at the time, by the British) helped scientists discover the hole in the ozone layer. Today, Vernadsky also boasts the planet...
...been writing all afternoon about "the useful tyranny of clock time," and here it was, displayed two dozen different ways in a shop window on his own block. Today he had scribbled out his theory that because watches in every pocket and clocks in every factory and railroad station had stimulated in people an acute awareness of time passing, that itchy new awareness had in turn stimulated the popular impatience with the status quo, and the new demands for still speedier progress...
...five solid hours of live-streamed punditry and reams of archived footage. By existing online, Doughty Street can avoid the long arm of regulators, which means "we're completely up-front about our views," says Dale, 44, a Conservative blogger. His three co-directors are also Tories. But the station's weeknight chat shows are just as likely to bite chunks out of David Cameron's new-look Tories as to draw blood from Tony Blair's Labour. Says Dale: "I never want to be a lackey who trots out the party line...
...past, the concept of a student television station on a campus with no cable television would have been nearly impossible. So would the idea of a “television” show that never makes it to a TV screen. But Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) is not a station of the past.For most of our lives, the hours from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Friday have been “primetime” for television viewing. Television that couldn’t fit into this time slot wasn’t worth watching, and keeping...
...Officers were dispatched to a report of loud noise coming from the radio station in the basement of Pennypacker Hall East. The officers arrived and advised the occupants to shut the windows...