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...side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic penguins; Pacific-coast pools with a kelp forest, frolicking sea otters and flying oyster catchers; and an Indian Ocean coral reef with pygmy angelfish and giant clams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Aquariums | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Tigers should prove the biggest threat to Crimson hopes for an Ivy League championship. Enjoying the benefits of a springtime that arrives earlier in central New Jersey than subpolar Cambridge. Princeton annually logs more practice time than most of its league rivals. Harvard will try to improve on its dismal seventh place finish in the 1980 tournament...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Alexander Leads Golfers To Greater Boston Title | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

...just such a winter shaping up as early as November, says that the same basic condition caused both the western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Funny Winter | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Dream No Longer. To ATCmen such routes are no longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in hotels on the Arctic icecaps, or make one-week round-trip business runs to Calcutta, Moscow or Chungking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Limitless Sky | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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