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SEATTLE — The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to ...

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Chilean science journalist Nadia Politis has explored the ends of the earth and beyond. From reporting in the bitter cold of ...

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