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Antarctica also plays tricks with time and space. The vast, treeless continent conveys the awesome inertia of a place where motion is noticeable only on a geological time scale, as though the extreme cold flowing out from the polar plateau has slowed the pulse of life itself. On the ice sheets, ice streams 50 miles wide--glaciers within a glacier, in effect--look like frozen rapids when seen from space. Only if time-lapse photography could collapse many hundreds of years would the continent look alive as the ice flowed and cracked, redistributing its mass according to the laws governing...
...there's one thing both sides agree on, it's that the land is worth fighting over. The Grand Staircase began forming 250 million years ago as colliding land masses lifted the Colorado Plateau while rivers carved into it. The result is a series of gigantic "steps," each more than 900 ft. tall and named after the characteristic color of its rocks: Pink Cliffs, Gray Cliffs, White Cliffs, Vermilion Cliffs. The monument's center is so remote that ambient noise can drop below the threshold of human hearing...
Junior Allison Feaster led the Crimson with 17 points, but only two came in the first half, contributing to the defecit at the half. No Harvard player reached double-digits in the first, while Lehigh had three players reach that plateau...
Concerns about Syria began to escalate in August, when officials in Damascus started threatening to use force to reclaim the Golan, the Syrian plateau captured by Israel in the 1967 war. Syrian President Hafez Assad was plainly frustrated by the policies of the new Israeli government of Netanyahu, who, unlike his two immediate predecessors, rules out a return of the strategic high land in exchange for a comprehensive peace treaty...
After scoring 22 points in Harvard's 65-64 opening round loss to Sienna, Feaster needed only four points to break the 1,000-point plateau in the consolation game...