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National: U.S.
senator seeking some answers during Iraq visit By John E.
Mulligan - Army Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. military commander
in the Persian Gulf, is in Iraq to spend Easter weekend touring
bases to see firsthand how the war is going.- More..
Friday - March 25, 2005
Washington Calling: First-responders'
equipment shortage ... Meet Market... Revenge ... More By
Lance Gay - Remember those post-9/11 days when politicians rallied
around the valiant first-responders, the emergency personnel
found they couldn't talk to one another over radio phones because
police, fire and other local government agencies broadcast on
different frequencies? - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
National: News
items from here and there... The mystery of how a human finger
found its way into a bowl of fast-food chili has sparked a series
of investigations that hope to trace the finger back from a San
Jose, Calif., restaurant to the hand it was detached from. -
More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
National: 'Phoods'
are only beginning of drug-altered products By Lance Gay
- A new generation of "phoods" is beginning to appear
on supermarket shelves, with pharmaceuticals added to the calories
to improve vision, lower cholesterol or add bone-strengthening
calcium. - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
National: Family:
Teen had 'good relationship' with grandfather he killed By
Chuck Haga - Jeff Weise had "a good relationship" with
the grandfather he shot and killed as prelude to his deadly assault
on students and others at Red Lake High School, according to
relatives who are struggling to understand what might have pushed
the teenager from sometimes bizarre behavior to mass murder and
suicide. - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
 National: "Back
to the future": countdown to Shuttle return to flight
- Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon
see the Shuttle blasting off again for a new exciting mission
in space. According to NASA's current schedule, this will be
between 15 May and 3 June (the precise date will be set once
the flight readiness review process has been completed at the
end of April). - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
Alaska:
Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from
lush grasslands to tundra - Huge colonies of seabirds accustomed
to nesting on islands free of predators began disappearing when
fur traders started introducing foxes onto islands in the Aleutian
archipelago in the 18th century. The ground-nesting birds made
easy meals for the foxes. A study published this week in the
journal Science now shows that the effects of the introduced
foxes rippled through entire island ecosystems, transforming
the vegetation from lush grasslands to scrubby, low-growing tundra.
- More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
Alaska: Cruise
Tax Again Proposed - Representative Carl Gatto (R-Palmer)
of the 24th Alaska Legislature has pioneered a new method to
propose his legislation - a web site. - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
Ketchikan: Pulitzer
Prize Winning Poet To Visit Ketchikan - Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer
Prize winning poet, will read from his body of work on Sunday,
April 3 at 7:30pm at the Saxman Tribal House. This event is free
and open to the public. The event is co-sponsored by the Ketchikan
Writers Forum, a program of the Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities
Council and the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan and
is a celebration of National Poetry Month. - More...
Friday - March 25, 2005
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