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February 09, 2004
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Top L -R: Nona Hamilton-Head; Hall Anderson; Sara Lawson Bottom L-R: Barbara Bigelow; Maxx and Gunnar Keizer; One of the TSAS performers... View more photos Front Page Photos by James R. Dahl
Alaska: Alaska
voters' fiscal worries jump... STATEWIDE SURVEY: 90 percent say
situation is dire; most would rather not tap the Permanent Fund.
- A new statewide poll suggests that more than 90 percent of
Alaska voters believe the state's fiscal situation needs urgent
attention, but the majority would rather tax the oil industry
or resurrect the income tax than tap the Permanent Fund to span
the gap between revenues and expenses. - Read
this story... |
And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
the rest of this story...
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