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Wednesday
November 19, 2003
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Front page photo by Carl Thompson Ketchikan: Front
Page Photo - Tongass Narrows - This photograph was taken
from Saxman looking across the Tongass Narrows on Tuesday morning.
Alaska: House
passes huge energy bill - The bill would grant $18
billion in loan guarantees to build an Alaska-to-Chicago natural
gas pipeline. -
Read more... Alaska: Energy Bill Defines Framework for Gasline - Governor Frank Murkowski said Tuesday that he was very pleased that the compromise federal energy bill provides the basic federal policy framework for a $20 billion natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48. "I would like to first
acknowledge the strong team we have on this issue with our Congressional
delegation Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Lisa Murkowski,
and Congressman Don Young - and with Arctic Power and the labor
unions that have devoted so much time and energy to this bill,"
Murkowski said. "They did a tremendous job." - Read
more... Ketchikan: Two
pounds of marijuana found in car on state ferry - A
Metlakatla man was arrested and his vehicle seized in Ketchikan
after U.S. Customs officers reportedly found two pounds of marijuana
in his car aboard the state ferry Taku. - Read
more... Ketchikan: New Scholarship Benefiting Ketchikan Youth Features First Fund-raising Concert Monday - A new scholarship benefiting Ketchikan youth features its first fund-raising concert Monday, Nov. 24th at 7 p.m. at the Ketchikan High School Auditorium. Donations will be accepted at the door and all proceeds will go to the Sam Pitcher Memorial Scholarship Fund to help Ketchikan youth attend summer music programs. Sam Pitcher was a Kayhi student
and was a member of all the groups that will perform Monday in
an evening of jazz and blues. The concert will feature the Windjammers
Jazz Club, the Soundwaves Jazz Club, the Discovery Jazz Club,
and the Kayhi Jazz Ensemble. - Read
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Ketchikan: Todd
Adams checked the load on his salt spreading truck at Mountain
Point very early Tuesday morning. Adams started his work day
very early in order to make the roads safe for school buses and
all vehicles. - View
a larger photo... Alaska: Governor
Wishes Senator Stevens Happy Birthday - Tuesday Governor
Frank Murkowski issued an executive proclamation expressing the
state's appreciation to US Senator Ted Stevens, who turned 80
years old Tuesday. In the proclamation, Murkowski declared Tuesday
"Senator Ted Stevens Appreciation Day," and asked Alaskans
to reflect on Stevens's vitality and feistiness, in addition
to the fact that he has achieved the distinguished status as
an octogenarian. - Read
more... Alaska: High
prices hold up through end of 2003 halibut season - The halibut
season ended this weekend with high prices thanks to the long
opening and booming fresh market. - Read
more... Nationwide: "Death
By A Thousand Cuts" Predicted for Nonprofits Across the
Nation - Warning that programs of interest to the nonprofit
sector will face "death by a thousand cuts for years to
come," two new reports released Tuesday by the Aspen Institute
Nonprofit Sector Research Fund suggest that people dependent
on crucial, community-based services across the nation will suffer
for years even after the predicted economic rebound. - Read
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Ketchikan - Flora's Health: Where Are the Fat Chinese?? - For the last several weeks, I have used this column as both a travel log of my trip to south China as well as a forum for health related subjects. This is probably the last column I will write specific to my Asian adventures, though I will continue to provide information on medical qigong and other Asian health practices. During the five weeks I spent in Hong Kong and the PRC, I was always in the presence of thin people. Whether we were in the company of the affluent Chinese or among the service people and beggars, everyone we came in contact was thin. No, let me be more specific. These people were skinny by western standards. I would estimate that ninety percent of them sported 2-3% body fat. As a middle aged western woman, who would certainly benefit from losing a few pounds, and as someone working in complimentary health care, I found this fact not only fascinating but occasionally irritating. I came to hypothesize that Asian people are inherently thinner than westerners. Where are the fat Chinese? Why are all these people so thin? Some students in my group offered
theories on this topic, pointing out that, as a group, Chinese
people appear to have very slight frames: translation, small
bones. Though true, this fact alone surely doesn't account for
the overall slimness of the population at large. Let's list this
premise anyway. - Read
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