On Alaska's Amchitka
Island, the canister for the CANNIKIN event is lowered downhole
to test the warhead design for the Spartan ABM interceptor.
Photo: Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
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Alaska: Senate
Passage of Complete Aid Fix For Amchitka/Nuclear Workers Welcomed
- U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Saturday welcomed Senate passage of
a series of major changes to the federal legislation designed
to compensate employees who became ill while and after working
on federal nuclear energy programs, such as the workers in Alaska
who worked on the three Amchitka Island nuclear bomb tests decades
ago. - More...
Monday - October 11, 2004
Columnists
 Joann
Flora: Weight
Management In the 21st Century: Part 1, Identifying the Problem
- Greetings, Sitnews readers. It's good to be back with you after
a summer layoff. In the coming months, I plan to present some
new and relevant topics concerning health and welcome your ideas
for new columns. The first is a series on weight management.
In September, I had occasion to attend a national conference
on the treatment and prevention of obesity. I have been concerned
about the ever increasing weight of our population,
particularly among our children, and wished to understand
the cause of this epidemic and which options are currently being
employed. As you may imagine, this is a pretty expansive
topic and one article will not address it all. Let's begin by
trying to understand the nature of obesity and identifying the
problem. - More...
Monday - October 11, 2004
 Dick
Morris: The
President Is Back - The president finally showed the guts,
determination and focus that earned him victories in the three
debates with Al Gore. He finally did his homework. He focused
on his briefing points and mobilized his rhetoric to win the
second debate. - More...
Monday - October 11, 2004
 Dave
Kiffer: Hope
springs eternal - One of the great advantages to growing
up in Ketchikan is that you don't necessarily have to become
obsessed with the success or failure of a professional sports
team.
Sure, there are more Mariners-Seahawks-Sonics
fans here than anything else, but it's not like if you grew up
in Chicago and had to depend on the success of either the Cubs/White
Sox or Bears for your sense of self worth. When I worked in Boston
in the mid 1980s, there were at least three suicides attributed
to the Red Sox' dramatic collapse against the Mets in the 1986
World Series. Just a sad reminder that fan is short for fanatic.
- More...
Monday - October 11, 2004
 Bob Ciminel: A
Prophet in Her Own Time - I first became aware of the religion
of Islam in the mid-1950s while a fifth grade student at St.
Alphonsus parochial school in the riverside community of Springdale,
Pennsylvania.
Now, before you Roman Catholics
out there get your feathers ruffled, this is not going to be
a diatribe against the Catholic Church. Although I left the Catholic
Church - if anyone can really "leave" the Church -
and have been a Methodist since the early 1970s, I have no quarrel
with it. When I use a term like "brainwashing" to describe
Catechism class, I am using it as a good connotation of what
I learned there and how I've applied it to my life. - More...
Monday - October 11, 2004
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