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...describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5ºF) 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 recently reported, however, that sequestered in the 60 ft. of ice that covers one of the largest Dry Valleys lakes, Lake Vida, are dormant but still viable bacteria that have been sealed off from the outside world for some 3,000 years...
Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...
...Brahm, a New York native, arrived in Beijing in 1981 as a student, clutching a well-worn copy of Mao's Little Red Book and seeking the revolutionary fervor he first encountered in Edgar R. Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there...
...guest rooms are decorated along different themes. The Edgar Snow Room features an old typewriter with a facsimile of a page from Red Star Over China still on the roller. The two sumptuously decorated Concubine Suites, complete with silk-draped, Ming-era opium beds, are designed for guests who, says Brahm, "always wanted to be a concubine?or have one." The Chairman's Chrysanthemum Suite is modeled on Mao's library and bedroom, where he received most of his visitors. The bookshelf above the antique bed is stacked with the Great Helmsman's favorites...
Zukerman and a friend were on a run when they noticed footprints leading out onto the frozen river, and a large question mark drawn in the snow...