"Far North" offers chilling lessons
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VENICE, Italy  - The lesson in Asif Kapadia's "Far North" is that when an independent and obviously resourceful woman from the tundra says that a shaman told her she would bring harm to anyone foolish enough to get close to her, it's wise to listen.
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As global warming melts the Arctic ice, dreams of a short sea passage to Asia - and riches beneath the surface - have been revived. But who will win the world's new Great Game?
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"The Coldest Winter" (Hyperion; $35; 719 pages), by David Halberstam: In what fate made his final book, David Halberstam remembered a "forgotten" war, exploring the 1950-53 Korean conflict with 719 pages of foxhole-level heroism and command-level folly. It's a work destined to endure as a popular history of one of America's most unpopular wars.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too
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PINE FALLS, Manitoba -- Here on the edge of the silent and frozen northern tier of the Earth, the fate of the world's climate is buried beneath the snow and locked in the still limbs of aspen trees.
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In a debut book, a young photojournalist explores the no man's land at the outer reaches of the former Soviet Union.
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Pen Hadow, who's preparing for a months-long trek across the Arctic, speaks on climate change, how technology has changed the life of an explorer, and the dangers of swimming with bears.
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In a terrifying videotape, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery. He looked certain to die, but survived through luck, self-possession beyond his years and enough grit to pull shrapnel out of his own arm.
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YELLOWKNIFE - The most comprehensive study of Arctic climate change ever made has some dramatic news for Canada&#39;s North. The report, which will be released next week, says that the most rapid climate change on earth is happening in the Arctic.
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CUMBERLAND -- Technically speaking, the Providence and Worcester Railroad doesnât lead to the North Pole, but passengers on the Blackstone Valley Polar Express may get a similar experience.
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From shoveling to playing Monopoly, snow packs a big impact in cold-front country.
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The last century, through its great cataclysms, offers two clear, ringing, and, unfortunately, contradictory lessons.
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Many films start out as award-winning books. But they arenât usually picture books. Emperor of the north: An engineer (Michael Jeter) takes a wild ride in âThe Polar Express.
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By ROGER PETTERSON A bone-chilling arctic cold wave with temperatures as low as 42 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters Monday, sent homeless people into shelters and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great Lakes.
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The best oceanographers in the world never studied at a university. Yet they know how to navigate expertly along oceanic fronts, the invisible boundaries between waters of different temperatures and densities.
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Updating Confucius to the stresses of a fast-changing nation.
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.