Word: toed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In September a blizzard with winds of up to 160 kph (100 m.p.h.), temperatures as low as -43 degrees C (-45 degrees F) and wind chill of -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F) kept the team tent-bound for 13 days. Said Steger when he reached the Patriot Hills campsite...
Steger's expedition has been better supplied than Scott's was. Fuel and food have been stashed at prearranged sites along the expedition's route. Each man wears 4.5 kg (10 lbs.) of insulated clothing and consumes daily some 1,030 g (36 oz.) of a high-energy diet (5...
The dogs are well protected too. Bred by Steger, they are hybrids of Siberian husky, malamute and timber wolf. They are fed a high-protein diet and are outfitted with jackets and booties. Even so, the journey has been brutal for the animals. Fifteen of them became so exhausted that...
A sneak preview of the latest Tom Clancy effulgence? Hardly. This frightening scenario of Soviet collapse, titled Nevozraschenets (The Non- Returnee), was published last June in Iskusstvo Kino, the official journal of the Soviet movie industry. Its appearance reflects a mood of unprecedented pessimism and self-doubt, in which intellectuals...
The ramifications of this possibility are so serious that they ought to worry the West more than they do. Would a complete Soviet collapse, after all, be a good or a bad thing?