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Thursday
October 23, 2003
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photo by Dick Kauffman
National: Senate
Votes 97-0 To Restrict E-Mail Ads; Bill Could Lead to No-Spam
Registry - The Senate approved the nation's first federal
anti-spam legislation last night after reaching a compromise
that also opens the door to a national no-spam registry similar
to the do-not-call list for telemarketers. - Read
more ... National: Spam
has e-mail by the throat, study says - It seems like a no-brainer:
Spam is a nuisance. - Read
more... Alaska: Fisherman
Aid Program Gets Final Approval; Application Process To Start
Immediately - After meeting Wednesday with U.S. Secretary
of Agriculture Ann Veneman and Office of Management and Budget
Director Josh Bolton, Senator Lisa Murkowski announced that the
Bush Administration has accepted a petition from the United Fishermen
of Alaska making all Alaska salmon fishermen eligible to apply
for federal aid to offset the effect of foreign imports on salmon
prices. - Read
more.... Alaska: First
Lady Nancy Murkowski Addresses AFN Youth and Elders Conference;
Calls for More Attention to Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Alaska's First Lady Nancy Murkowski on Wednesday called
on Alaskans to renew their attack on substance and alcohol abuse,
calling it "a cancer on Alaska." Mrs. Murkowski spoke
to more than 800 people from across Alaska gathered for the Alaska
Federation of Natives' Youth and Elders conference in Anchorage.
- Read
more... Alaska: Support
For Gas Line, ANWR Provisions In Energy Bill Urged; Will Produce
Good Jobs For Americans - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, arguing
that a national energy policy must provide for increase supplies
of domestic oil and gas, on Wednesday urged Senate-House negotiators
to include provisions to aid construction of an Alaska natural
gas pipeline and to permit oil production from the Arctic coastal
plain as they finish a national energy bill. - Read
more.... |
Ketchikan - Craig: Bill Eggen - The Hairizons' Man by Kathy Stack - William C. Eggen - known around Ketchikan as the Hairizons' man - has provided beautiful hair styles to Southeast residents since his move to Alaska in September of 1991. Bill Eggen said the move so many years ago from Minnesota to Alaska was "a long trip." Striking out to the last frontier,
Eggen made the move in an old shipping truck he bought for $2000
with his wife at the time, Pat, driving their white Plymouth
Voyager. Unfortunately, the old truck's brakes went out in Spokane,
Washington delaying the trip and costing $1000 to repair. Although
the family had to stay in Spokane for over a week, Eggen said
they had a great time there and made some good friends. After
finally getting back on the road and again on their way to Alaska,
Eggen drove the old truck as far as Prince Rupert where he sold
it for $3,500 making a small profit. - Read
more.... Joann Flora's Travel Log
#3:
Overcoming Preconceived Notions - Like many westerners, I
came to The People's Republic of China with my own ideas of what
it was all about. I envisioned rice paddies, poverty, bicycles,
rickshaws, everyone wearing Mao suits, and armed guards standing
about everywhere I went. I knew the country would be entirely
grey and brown, with only the color being the occasional red.
This is not the first time I've been wrong, but it is certainly
one of my biggest misconceptions. My month in China is limited
geographically to Hong Kong, Zhongshan, and Zhongzhou, the capitol
of Guangdong Province. Each area is very different and has its
own unique properties, none of which did I anticipate. - Read more... |
Alaska: The Mystery of the Broken Moose Teeth by Ned Rozell - A good number of moose on the Seward Peninsula have pitted, worn, and broken teeth. Scientists are wondering if the teeth may warn of an environmental hazard. Julie Maier is a wildlife biologist
who keeps a few boxes of moose jaws in her Fairbanks office.
Hunters removed the lower jaws from moose they harvested in different
areas of Alaska and sent them to the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game to help managers determine the age and health of the
animals. In the 1980s, biologists noticed cracked and pitted
teeth on many samples from the Seward Peninsula. Recently Maier,
a research associate with the University of Alaska's Institute
of Arctic Biology, decided to take a closer look. - Read
more...
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