The Wacko Factor
"And finally in the news tonight: Rescue at the Bottom of the World! The United States Navy has launched a highly dangerous rescue mission to the Amundsen Facility of McMurdo Station, eighty miles from the South Pole. Their reason? Two ailing employees at the research station located there who have sustained injuries or contracted an illness that the resident medical personnel feel unequipped to handle. That no one on site seems willing to disclose the severity of their condition only ads to the mystery surrounding this very daring operation. Why daring, you might ask? Well consider these factors. It is July. The South Pole is bathed in total darkness. The sun will not appear there again until September. This is the dead of winter down there, when the storms are most sev
