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February 10, 2004
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Top L -R: Bill Holm; Ernie Smeltzer; Nathan Jackson Bottom L-R: Bill Holm & Jack Navitsky of Sitka; Pete Richards; Bill Pfeifer Photos courtesy Ketchikan Museums - Photo Essay
Alaska: State,
Flint Hills Reach Agreement on Royalty Oil Purchase - Governor
Frank Murkowski announced Monday that the State of Alaska has
reached agreement with Flint Hills Resources on the sale of North
Slope royalty oil for use in the North Pole refinery Flint Hills
is buying from Williams. The contract allows Flint Hills to purchase
up to 77,000 barrels per day for up to 10 years. - Read
more... Alaska: Ulmer
Joins National Parks Group - Fran Ulmer, former lieutenant
governor of Alaska, has joined the board of trustees of the National
Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). The board is the governing
body for the nonpartisan watchdog organization. - Read
more... Education: 'No
Child Left Behind' Holds Potential for Teacher Improvement -
"No Child Left Behind," the federal education reform
act implemented two years ago, warrants broader support among
universities for its push to strengthen teacher quality, according
to a position paper by The Renaissance Group. - Read
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Ketchikan:
Medical: Researchers
Find Leptin Turns Fat-Storing Cells Into Fat-Burning Cells
- Increasing leptin, a protein involved in regulating body weight,
in laboratory animals transforms fat-storing cells into unique
fat-burning cells, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center
at Dallas report. They speculate that these findings could provide
"a quick and safe solution" to the obesity problem
in humans. -
Read more... Science: A
shocking surprise: high voltage + rats = ozone, reopens power-line
debate - Rats subjected to extreme electromagnetic fields
produce dangerous levels of the toxic gas ozone, according to
a new study out of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
that is sure to reenergize the decade-dormant debate about safety
around power lines and household appliances. - Read
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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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