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...million Frese Foundation gift enabled Harvard to join in the project and gave Harvard astronomers the promise of guaranteed time on a telescope in the Andes, where the viewing conditions are almost perfect...
...Russia, were relatively tame compared with Galliano's usual antics. But they delighted the fashion press, which was unexcited by the collections in Milan. The Dior headwear shown here may be a bit extravagant for city dwellers, but it should help keep llama herders braving cold weather in the Andes toasty...
...mountains, Kilimanjaro is not part of a chain. The dormant volcano's massive bulk rises in solitary grace out of the East African savanna, just 200 miles south of the equator. It stands 19,340 feet above sea level, shorter than the towering peaks of the Himalayas or the Andes but high enough to make breathing difficult and each step a chore...
...gravely endangered. From the Quelccaya ice cap in southern Peru, for example, he has reconstructed a 1,500-year sequence of swings from wet to dry that eerily track the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. From glaciers on opposite sides of the world, some in the Andes, others in the Himalayas, he has built a strong case that the tropics were far colder 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, than most scientists thought possible...
...Colombia. Two weekends ago, at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the Presidents of the nations surrounding Colombia told President Bush that they are worried Plan Colombia will simply push drugs and violence into their yards. In response, the Bush Administration has been fine-tuning a wider Andes plan, which would expand U.S. operations into all five countries. The plan would be more than double the size of Plan Colombia and would represent the largest escalation of the drug war to date...