Tuesday
November 23, 2004
'High
Noon'
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
 Ketchikan:
Listen to this KRBD story... Just two days
after her 16-year-old daughter and two 24-year-old boyfriends
of the teenager were arrested and charged in her death, 48-year-old
Lauri Waterman was laid to rest Sunday. As Deanna Garrison reports,
Troopers say the bizarre kidnapping and murder was not the first
attempt by the trio to kill Waterman.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
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Alaska: Governor
Seeks Panel Nominees - Governor Frank H. Murkowski is seeking
Alaskans to serve on committees to help design the state's commemorative
quarter, plan a 50-year statehood celebration or guide the future
of the faith-based and community social service initiative, -
More...
Tuesday - November 23, 2004
National: Study
Says Nation Wastes Nearly Half Its Food - As we sit down
to Thanksgiving Day dinner this Thursday, many Americans will
marvel at the cornucopia of food at their table. What many don't
think about is how much food is wasted, not just on Thursday,
but every day, from the beginning of the harvest to the scraps
tossed into the garbage. Mounting new evidence, in fact, shows
just how wasteful the nation is with its bounty.
America has been long been
the poster child for the "throw-away society" and researchers
have known for years about the volumes of food Americans toss
into the trash. Only recently, though, has that been quantified
as a percentage of what is produced. A new study from the University
of Arizona in Tucson indicates that forty to fifty percent of
all food ready for harvest never gets eaten.
Timothy W. Jones, an anthropologist
at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, has spent
the last 10 years measuring food loss, including the last eight
under a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jones
started in the farms and orchards, went on through the warehouses,
retail outlets and dining rooms, and to landfills. - More...
Tuesday - November 23, 2004
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Science: New
NOAA Web Site Keeps an Eye on the Arctic - A new NOAA Web
site shows the past and present state of the Arctic climate and
ecosystem at a glance. The Web site provides information about
the ice, land, climate, marine ecosystem and human effects all
with a historical context as well as current data. The Web site
was introduced at the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Symposium
in Iceland.
"We thought that it was
important to present recent Arctic changes in a historical context
and show how diverse these changes are," said James Overland,
an oceanographer at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
in Seattle, Wash., where the site was designed and is maintained.
An area of the world that still
captures many imaginations, the Arctic is described on the Web
site as a "vast, ice-covered ocean that is surrounded by
treeless, frozen land, which is often covered with snow and ice"
but that "teems with life including organisms living in
the ice, fish and marine mammals living in the sea, birds, land
animals such as wolves, caribou and polar bears, and human societies."
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Tuesday - November 23, 2004
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