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February 12, 2004
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by Carl Thompson
Alaska: Delegates
favor an income tax; Conference of Alaskans turns against governor's
wishes - Gov. Frank Murkowski's Conference of Alaskans
on Wednesday rebelled against him and expressed strong support
for an income tax, an idea the governor has forcefully opposed
since he campaigned for the office. - Read
this story... Alaska: Senator
Murkowski Urges State In Gas Talks To Allow Individual Alaskans
To Buy Into Gas Pipeline - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski has
asked the state, as it negotiates agreements with potential natural
gas pipeline builders, to require that Alaskans have the right
to own a part of any gas line, that it protect the ability of
an All-Alaska LNG project to proceed, and that it seek Alaska
hire, worker training and labor agreements and additional funding
to promote quality education in Alaska. - Read
more...
Ketchikan: Ring
given in gratitude returned in friendship - Decades after
a widow gave her wedding ring to a family friend, the keepsake
is returned to her daughters. - Read
this story... Alaska: State
OKs new standardized tests...EDUCATION: Students will take
the same type of exam in all grade levels beginning in 2005,
officials say. - Read
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Alaska Science: Alaska Weather to be Digested Differently by Ned Rozell - Alaska weather geeks, including me, will soon have more to gawk at. The state's offices of the National Weather Service are switching to a new communication system that will someday allow people to check forecasts for their specific neighborhood or village. Forecasters at weather service offices in Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks have started to use a computer database that divides Alaska's 912,597 square kilometers into individual boxes about three-to-five kilometers on a side. As soon as the bugs are worked out of the system, Alaskans will be able to select specific areas of the state and get detailed forecasts. "Say you want to go hunting
70 miles west of Iliamna and you want to know what the weather
will be like in two days," said Eric Stevens of the NWS
office in Fairbanks. "Instead of settling for a generalized
forecast for the entire region around Iliamna, you could click
on a point on the map, and boom, there's your customized information.
We have the potential to forecast for every 5-kilometer 'neighborhood'
in Alaska." - 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
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