Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature's most impressive pageants, monarch butterflies fly from as far away as Canada to spend the winter in tiny patches of fir forest nestled in the mountains of central Mexico.* Though the butterfly migration has been going on since at least the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago, the isolated roosts were discovered by zoologists only in 1975. Alarmed by the disappearance of forests around the sites, the Mexican government and private conservation groups have joined forces to protect them. Says University of Florida Zoologist Lincoln Brower: "We're dealing with one of the most fragile...
...Mexico City took a critical step: it officially declared the butterfly's winter domains "ecological preserves." The proclamation prohibits logging and agricultural development within an area of 11,000 acres around the monarch retreats and restricts development in buffer zones that encompass another 28,000 acres. In addition, the Ministry of Ecology bought about 2,000 acres of land where the insects actually cluster...
...nectar, monarchs fly up to 100 miles a day. One explanation for the spectacular mass movement is that when the glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated from North America, the butterflies expanded their range northward to exploit new food supplies, and then began migrating to survive the winter. How the butterflies find their winter hideouts is a conundrum as well. An intriguing theory suggests that, like certain species of birds, the monarchs may respond to the earth's magnetism: the Mexican hideaways surround a large iron-ore deposit, which creates a powerful magnetic field...
...March, when they head home for Britain, T & D, as the English press calls them, will be as familiar to many Americans as AT&T. To those who watched the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, they already are. Scoring two perfect sixes, they won the gold medal and virtually reconstructed that curious hybrid -- half sport, half art -- called ice dancing...
Molotov's name became associated around the world with the explosive "cocktail" made by stuffing rags into gasoline-filled bottles. Finnish partisans ironically named the weapon for the Soviet Foreign Minister and used it with devastating effect against Soviet tanks during the winter war of 1939-40. The Molotov cocktail gained further notoriety a year later, when ill- equipped Soviet troops were forced to deploy the makeshift fire bombs against advancing German armor. After the Nazi invasion began, it was Molotov, not the stunned and demoralized Stalin, who announced the shocking news to his countrymen in a radio broadcast...