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Except in rarefied intellectual circles, articles that appear in the Cambridge, Mass., journal Daedalus (circ. 14,000) seldom stir up much of a fuss. But a pseudonymous piece appearing in the quarterly's winter issue is kicking up a storm. Titled "To the Stalin Mausoleum," the pessimistic assessment of the...
The inhabitants of these bases have been notoriously careless, often discarding trash in ways that would be illegal at home. But their actions went largely unnoticed until January 1987, when Greenpeace became the first nongovernment organization to establish a permanent Antarctic base, located at Cape Evans, some 24 km (15...
Chiang contends that despite past sins, the local ecology has not suffered very much. Some scientists agree. Says Cornelius Sullivan of the University of Southern California, who studies the algae that live in and under McMurdo Sound ice: "A few places are filthy. But most of the water is still...
Such arguments are behind the surge in support for a world park. The proposal by Australia and France last October that the continent be declared a "wilderness reserve" under the eye of an Antarctic environmental- protection agency -- essentially the world-park scheme by a different name -- was hailed by environmentalists...
In the U.S. last November, the California board of education faltered under pressure from religious right-wingers and overruled the state's curriculum commission to alter a guideline for the teaching of evolution in California's schools. Darwinian evolution will no longer be presented as fact, but as both fact...