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Thursday
February 19, 2004
"International exports
help build a strong economy in Alaska and bring billions of new
dollars into the state," Murkowski told members of the Alaska
World Affairs Council at their noon meeting in Anchorage. "Trade
is especially important because it creates jobs and hope for
thousands of people throughout Alaska. The state is on the right
track to increasing our trade." - Read
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Alaska:
Ketchikan:
Ketchikan: Homeport for Fairweather Announced - The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today
that it has selected the former Tesora Fuel Terminal on South
Tongass Highway as the homeport site for the NOAA ship Fairweather.
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Dick Morris: Why W. Must Bash Kerry Now - The 2004 presidential election may be decided in the next two months. For three years, George W.
Bush has sought to define himself by his accomplishments as president.
Legion though they are, he has only achieved a stalemate: His
job approval is only a break-even 48 positive and 48 negative
in the most recent Fox News poll. - 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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