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There is another sort of life as well. All around Antarctica the coast is dotted with corrugated-metal buildings, oil-storage tanks and garbage dumps -- unmistakable signs of man. No fewer than 16 nations have established permanent bases on the only continent that belongs to the whole world. They were set up mainly to conduct scientific research, but they have become magnets for boatloads of tourists, who come to gawk at the peaks and the penguins. Environmentalists fear that miners and oil drillers may not be far behind. Already the human invaders of Antarctica have created an awful mess...
...holds that our universe was born as a microscopic ripple in a perfect vacuum, not so very new an idea, since Thomas Aquinas proposed something similar seven centuries ago. Although the good saint was never excommunicated for such heretical views, he was under constant fire from zealots as a sort of premature secular humanist...
...supply . . . We have spoiled our land, rivers and forests . . . We have become morally ill because we are used to saying one thing and thinking another . . . The concepts of love, friendship, mercy, humility and forgiveness have lost their depths and dimension, and for many of us they represent only some sort of psychological curiosity, or they appear as long-lost wanderers from faraway times, somewhat ludicrous in the era of computers and spaceships...
...American Affairs. "It's a bugaboo." Other intelligence experts disagree. According to a former CIA official quoted by the New York Times, Noriega "can make us look terribly meddlesome. He can expose a lot of activities, people and places. At a minimum, it will be embarrassing and difficult. This sort of case is bad enough when there's nothing there. It's doubly bad if, as in this case, there...
...testing the waters and sort of touching base with people," Dixon said in an interview Monday. "I am likely...