 |
 |
 |
||
|
||||
|
One thing we've always known in the newspaper business -- or ought to have known -- is that we're not necessarily being truthful by being factual. Cutting corners makes the world go round Hot water is spewing from a miniature apparatus. A paper cup, waiting patiently in its crook, catches the instantly brewed serving of energy. Sitting in my 14th floor hotel room, I realize that my desk at home needs one of these machines. Letters to the Editor The whale oil economy One thing we've always known in the newspaper business -- or ought to have known -- is that we're not necessarily being truthful by being factual. In the Arctic Circle -- north of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Demark -- in summer, a land of brown mountains streaked with snow-filled gullies, low clouds that blur distinctions of sky and land, and wide glaciers reaching the ocean in gashes of bright sky blue. |
|
