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May/June 2007 issue	IN THIS ISSUE: Table of Contents Feature: Torngat Mountains Feature: Urban sprawl Feature: Crumbling mountains Feature: Dust doctor The Inside Story Editor's Notebook Reverberations Explorer À la carte Mosaic

The sandpiper is not much bigger than the palm of my hand. It lies on its back, wings splayed, neck twisted, thin beak jammed into the sun-softened snow near the middle of the valley of ice.

Denny Capps pulls off his sunglasses and gingerly nudges the carcass with the tip of his ice pick. He frowns, his gaze moving to the edge of the carpet of rock and debris that extends all the way up the glacier. Clambering somewhere amid that maze of smashed stone is his research partner, Dan Shugar, who would surely be as stunned by this discovery as we are.

Capps, a slow-talking 34-year-old Louisianan, is not a shouter. He emotes mostly with his eyes, and now his eyes are wide with excitement. "Looks like our little friend here got blasted right out of the sky," he murmurs.

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