Word: tundras
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When the first chill sweeps across the tundra of northern Manitoba each year, the bears, in particular the big males, begin to think about their favorite winter activity, hunting fat seals on the ice floes of Hudson Bay. With unerring instinct, they begin congregating around the bay's southwestern shores, mostly in the area of Cape Churchill, only 35 miles east of the town, where the first ice usually forms. Meanwhile, pregnant females, urged on by another instinct, head for a bleak region 50 miles south of Churchill, the largest known polar bear denning area in the world...
...Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...normally stoic citizens of the Soviet Union may be facing a long winter of food shortages. Estimates of the size of this year's harvest in the U.S.S.R. are falling almost as fast as the temperature on the Siberian tundra. Less than a month ago, American experts predicted 180 million metric tons of grain, which would be 5% less than last year's production and 24% lower than 1978's record harvest...
...gravel causeway 1½ miles away, workers prepare to unload Kardonsky's steel cathedral. Welders will separate the buildings from the barge decks. Transferred to the sort of crawlers that carry space rockets to launch pads, the buildings will creep to their final homes on the tundra amid frozen swamps, grazing caribou and flaming jets...
...backpacker, the High Sierra is a state of mind. Cleanswept, devoid of trees, the region contains the range's highest peaks. It would almost seem barren were it not for the glacier basins with their high tundra meadows, tiny wildflowers, deep blue lakes, and foaming cascades...