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Crystal Ball of Ice Snow was flying last week on the Juneau Ice Field, and the last of the Jirps (members of the Juneau Ice Field Research Project) had flown or skied to warmer levels. They had completed one more season of probing Alaska's great ice mass, clocking its slow motions, and trying to use it as a vast crystal ball to predict the earth's future climate...
Among the lesser winter sports, wrestling fortunes blow hot and cold, but they have been blowing warmer of recent date. Captain-elect Johnny Lee climaxed a brilliant season last year by winning the 125-pound National A.A.U. title in Iowa. Although they also fall into the minor sport category, superior squash teams annually arise from the College courts, and last year's team rose as high as the national championship. The individual national champion of this non-spectator cross between tennis and handball was senior Henry Foster, third of a line of Harvard captain brothers, and the runner...
...English language offers no warmer word of greetings to a visitor than "Welcome," yet it seems inadequate as an expression of the warmth of hearth with which Boston and all New England await the arrival...
...that normal oxygen contains two stable isotopes, oxygen 18 and oxygen 16, in the proportion of 1 to 500. When a sea mollusk takes up calcium carbonate (CaCO3) to build its shell, the proportions of the oxygen isotopes in it vary with the temperature of the sea water. The warmer the water the less oxygen 18 is built into the shell...
...Found only in the warmer parts of the Americas, Desmodus rotundus feeds exclusively on blood. The bite of a non-rabid vampire ordinarily does a human victim no serious harm, but rabid vampires are deadly. Derriengue, like other forms of rabies, can be prevented by vaccination...