They used a grid displaying all possible hues rolled into a globe, with black at the north pole and white at the south.

ECONOMIST: Psychology

Julian drove into town and bought an electric heater, but under the fifteen-foot ceilings the device was like a spark at the North Pole.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Nicholas Claus (Paul Giamatti) persuades his resentful and estranged older brother, Fred (Vince Vaughn), a motormouthed Chicago repo man, to pay him a visit at the North Pole.

NEWYORKER: Fred Claus

But a report last year that an expedition had found open water at the North Pole was dismissed as largely meaningless by critics who said it happened every year.

BBC: Ice surprise for sailor

Tackling the real North Pole is estimated to take at least four times as long as the magnetic pole, which, at present, is considerably further south.

BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Up the Pole

Deep inside the Arctic Circle, far closer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Svalbard is at once one of Europe's last intact wilderness areas and the world's most accessible slice of the polar North.

BBC: Drawing near to the North Pole

And if things do not work out and Chrysler slides into bankruptcy, Fiat has no liability exposure but would be in pole position to pick up the assets it needs to implement its North American strategy at fire-sale prices.

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