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...obtain this data, six pilots fly single-engine, single-jet ER-2 planes into subzero temperature zones...
Even longtime Alaskans, who normally boast of basking in subzero weather, were wincing. Says Mitch Falk, manager of Aurora North Fuel in Deadhorse: "It's not too bad at 45 below, but 60 below takes it out of you." At the Corner Bar in Nenana, which is usually busy even in -25 degrees weather, no one was coming in for a cold beer...
...tenderfoots should beware. Koochiching features howling wolves, garbage-scavenging bears, voracious mosquitoes and subzero winter temperatures. "We're not giving away much," says program backer Lee Hervey. "You're earning...
...phenomenon that Hansen describes is actually a natural, beneficial atmospheric process that many scientists believe has gone awry -- perhaps irreversibly. Without the greenhouse effect, life on earth would be a nightmare of subzero temperatures. Instead, naturally produced CO2 and other gases, mainly from plant and animal life, behave in the atmosphere like the glass in a greenhouse: they let the visible warming rays of the sun in but inhibit the escape of infrared rays back into space...
...scandal, sensation or fragrant doings can parlay a puddle of notoriety into oceans of money plus exotic life-styles. Culprits do it, victims do it, innocent bystanders do it. Even an ordeal equals opportunity. Rescued in the Yukon, where a 1963 plane crash delivered her to seven weeks of subzero weather, Helen Klaban exulted over a dream come true: "Hey, I'm a celebrity!" Her book, Hey, I'm Alive, duly followed...