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To describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5şF) that glacier-fed streams run no more than six weeks a year, and so arid that what little snow falls turns to vapor almost overnight. Scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking The Ice | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

Like Julius Caesar's Gaul, the ice that covers Antarctica is divided into three parts. There is the small ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is the big ice that covers the solid, continental block of East Antarctica to a depth, in places, of nearly three miles. And there is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking The Ice | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

Three million years ago, the mean temperature of the earth was at least several degrees higher than today. Scientists still do not know precisely what caused the warming or how Antarctica responded. One group argues that during this time significant expanses of the White Continent were not merely ice free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking The Ice | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

“Even though we knew there were some tough covers at the four and five for us, our intent was to really try to get the inside game from them,” Sullivan said. “So you had to find some way to bring them...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Can’t Stop Penn Bombers | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

The Crimson of Jan. 22 included several Associated Press articles; of these, one concerned marijuana’s effect as a gateway drug, and another described a Vermont festival called the Strolling of the Heifers. How is it possible that a campus with the world-renowned Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...

Author: By Heidi J. Bruggink, | Title: Crimson Ignores Feminist Issues | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

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