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Tuesday
October 21, 2003
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photo by Chris Wilhelm Ketchikan: Front
Page Photo - Monthly Grind Startup Band - Ketchikan - Some
of the members of the October 18th Monthly Grind startup band
are Peggy Hovik, Paul Hovik, Janel Pyle, Tom LeCompte and Ryan
Miller. The next Monthly Grind will be November 15th...
Ketchikan: Coast
Guard rescues three fishermen - A Coast Guard helicopter
rescue crew airlifted three fishermen after their boat lost steering
forcing them to anchor just south of Windy Point approximately
30 miles southwest of Ketchikan early this morning. - Read
more... Alaska:
New web site works to promote Alaska Native artists - An
Alaska Native nonprofit group has launched a Web site that promotes
Native artists and markets their work. Sealaska Heritage Institute
created the site in response to Native artists' complaints that
Alaska merchants are selling cheap replicas of Alaska Native
art made by non-Natives. - Read
more... Alaska: Attorney
General Will Seek To Uphold Alaska Parental Consent Act In Appeal
to State Supreme Court - Attorney General Gregg Renkes announced
Monday that he will appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court the recent
decision by Superior Court Judge Tan, which found the Alaska
Parental Consent Act unconstitutional. - Read
more... Alaska: State
Will Not Appeal Marijuana Initiative Ruling; Division of Elections
Will Count Petition Booklet Signatures - Lieutenant Governor
Loren Leman announced Monday morning that the State will not
appeal Judge John Suddock's ruling in Hinterberger, et al
v. State of Alaska. The case involves an initiative petition
entitled: "An Initiative requiring the State of Alaska to
vote on an Act to decriminalize and regulate cannabis (hemp including
marijuana)." - Read
more... Education: States'
benchmarks vary for school-improvement law - Challenged to
get top teachers in all core classes, states are reporting widely
varying starting points, from a low in Alaska to near perfection
in Wisconsin. - Read
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Alaska Science: The Splitting of the North's Largest Ice Shelf by Ned Rozell - Off the northern coast of Canada, a chunk of ice larger than Chicago has fractured for the first time in several thousand years. The Ward Hunt ice shelf, the largest of its kind in the Arctic, broke in two and developed many other cracks within the last three years. Scientists including Martin Jeffries of the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute made this discovery during visits to the mass of ice and by reviewing satellite images received at the Geophysical Institute's Alaska Satellite Facility. The crackup of the ice shelf
has attracted comparisons to the drastic calving of ice shelves
in Antarctica, which many scientists believe is compelling evidence
of global warming. - Read
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Polar Ice Sheets: ICESAT's Lasers Measure Ice, Clouds & Land Elevations - NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) has resumed measurements of the Earth's polar ice sheets, clouds, mountains and forests with the second of its three lasers. Crisscrossing the globe at nearly 17,000 miles per hour, this new space mission is providing data with unprecedented accuracy on the critical third dimension of the Earth, its vertical characteristics. "The first set of laser
measurements is revealing features of the polar ice sheets with
details never seen before, and is detecting dust storms, cloud
heights, tree heights and smoke from forest fires in new and
exciting ways," said Jay Zwally, ICESat Project Scientist
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. - Read
more...
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