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...Little Ice Age's] long chill, and the Vikings never adapted the Inuit's more effective strategies for the cold." If the Norse were that backward, how did they survive for even one generation in their remote new land? Greenland represented a daunting challenge even in its warmest periods. Instead, the Norse managed well for about a half-millennium, maintaining their own culture while adapting to changing fortunes. The arbitrary date, A.D. 1450, given for when the colony ended merely closes doors that need to stay open until we know more. KIRSTEN A. SEAVER Palo Alto, Calif...
...American Legion: Veterans across the country are clear in their support for one of their own in this spring's Republican primary. Listen to what they have to say about McCain: "John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life," says Joe Smith, a Vietnam veteran. Richard Jones, another vet, had this to add: "John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life...
...World War II term that two generations later continues to conjure up the warmest and proudest memories of a noble war that pitted pure good against pure evil--and good triumphed. The victors in that war were the American G.I.s, the Willies and Joes, the farmer from Iowa and the steelworker from Pittsburgh who stepped off a landing craft into the hell of Omaha Beach. The G.I. was the wisecracking kid Marine from Brooklyn who clawed his way up a deadly hill on a Pacific island. He was a black fighter pilot escorting white bomber pilots over Italy and Germany...
...Nice way to spend the warmest months of the year...
...Average world surface temperature in 1998, in degrees Fahrenheit; the warmest on record...