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December 12, 2003
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Ketchikan's newly decorated Christmas tree brightens up the night with its colorful lights. The tree, photographed Thursday night, was donated by the Cape Fox Corporation. Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson Alaska & Western US: Plate Boundary Observatory will map seismic processes across North America - To some, the $100 million, five-year effort to sprinkle seismic sensors in Alaska and throughout the western United States is known as the Plate Boundary
But to geophysicist Paul Segall it is something more. ''This kind of thing happens
once in a career,'' says Segall, a professor of geophysics at
Stanford University who chairs the PBO advisory board that determined
just how this sprinkling should occur. - Read more...
Lifestyles: Making
Holidays Fire Safe - The Department of Homeland Security's
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Fire
Administration urge the nation's families to take steps to make
their holidays "Fire Safe" this year. Satatistics show
that the incidence of house fires increases during the winter
holiday season - fueled in part by holiday decorations, candles,
and Christams trees. - Read
more... National: NOAA
Fisheries Seeing Public Comment On Essential Fish Habitat Guidelines
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)
National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) has opened
a public comment period through an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (ANPR) addressing potential revisions to the essential
fish habitat (EFH) guidelines. Those who wish to comment on the
potential revisions have until January 26, 2004 to do so. NOAA
is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. - Read
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Ketchikan:
Alaska Science: An Ancestor of the Denali Fault Earthquake by Ned Rozell - A huge earthquake similar to the November 2002 Denali fault earthquake probably ripped along the same path in the last 650 years, said a scientist who searches for signs of ancient earthquakes. David Schwartz of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California announced results from summer 2003 fieldwork on the Denali fault in Alaska at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. More than 9,000 scientists who study Earth and space attended the meeting, held Dec. 8-12, 2003. Schwartz was part of a USGS
team that spent 11 days last summer exploring different segments
of the 215-mile scar left behind by Earth's largest earthquake
in the year 2002. The researchers were looking for better detail
of the earthquake's "fault trace," the torn pathway
left behind on the ground surface after a large earthquake. The
Denali fault earthquake left a dramatic path of cracks through
glaciers, and the warmth of summer exposed many jagged lines
torn through tundra and forest. - Read
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Festive holiday lights are appearing daily throughout the Ketchikan community. These colorful gifts of lights are provided by families for the enjoyment of all. Carl Thompson is traveling the community to capture these colorful light displays to share with the Sitnews readers. Free Speech is Now Unconstitutional - If my father didn't have Alzheimer's disease and was aware of what's happening in Washington, he'd be cursing himself for having appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court. In the Court's latest outrageous ruling, it was O'Connor's swing vote that created a 5-to-4 majority that decided that free speech as protected under the First Amendment isn't all that important after all. In that ruling Wednesday O'Connor
and her colleagues just went ahead and simply emasculated the
First Amendment, deciding Congress in its wisdom is free to pass
laws abridging freedom of speech, as long as its motives are
as pure as the driven snow. -
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