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In the mid-nineteen-eighties, the sense of existential vulnerability was at least as profound as it is today: nuclear winter loomed, the AIDS epidemic was creating true carnage, and what had become known as the "ozone hole"-a gap in the stratospheric ozone layer over the South Pole-had grown larger than the continent of Antarctica. In late 1986, a group of researchers travelled to Antarctica to investigate the causes of the crisis. It is here that "Magellanica," loosely based on the story of that expedition, begins. [Source: The New Yorker]
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