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...Kangerlussuaq, which sits just off the rocky northwest coast of Greenland, is also home to one of the largest glaciers in the world, one that is melting speedily, pouring freshwater and the occasional iceberg into Baffin Bay. After getting properly outfitted for our trip to NEEM the next day - our weather forecast is in the teens, but temperatures really can be polar even during the summer - we take a car trip out to the vanishing edge of the glacier, some 30 km outside town. It's the waning hours of the afternoon, though it's hard to tell; time loses...
Counselors describe today's students as sexually sophisticated but wary. Says Julianne Baffin, a dean of campus life at Atlanta's Emory University: "They have already had their share of heartbreaks in broken relationships. They have already been the dumpee or dumper, and they don't want that any more." Instead of floating into relationships, she says, students are more likely to go out socially in groups. "It isn't that sex as recreation has gone back into the closet," she says. "It's just that it's not considered a primary pursuit any more...
...very slim. "These areas were heavily occupied by Native Americans," says archaeologist Patricia Sutherland of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, "so while there may have been some trade, relations would have been hostile. Maybe someone will find an isolated Norse farm on the coast of Labrador or Baffin Island, but not an outpost...
...only in the past decade have travel companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing...
...point about discovery is not that someone floats ashore somewhere, by accident, leaving no traces. The American continental coast from Tierra del Fuego to the Aleutians in the west and Baffin Bay on the east coast is such a vast catchment area for the globe's wind and water currents that it is inconceivable that non-native people should not have fetched up there before Columbus. But the essence of discovery is that the voyage is repeatable. It entails documentation -- logs and records. The discoverer is the person who gets from known A to unknown B, returns...