Word: alaska
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...trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean: "It has a rustic feel but no rustic hardship. If Baked Alaska is what you want, Baked Alaska is what...
...Alaska, after all, is part of the American union, and yet has about 1,100 miles of Canada between it and the continental U.S. It hasn't been considered something impossible that 1,100 miles of a foreign country can still allow for free flow and good connections...
...America?76% of them Hispanic?are taught at least some of their schoolwork in 70 dialects and languages. The federal Office of Bilingual Education alone sponsors 700 programs in 41 states and five territories, at a cost of $135 million; the spectrum of languages sweeps from Aleut in Alaska to Yiddish in New York. Meanwhile, at least ten states have passed legislation mandating bilingual instruction in those school districts with a minimum number of children?usually ten to 20?who speak a foreign language and are seriously deficient in English...
Enter Craig Gavin, a sophomore diver from Anchorage, Alaska, who will probably be remembered more for hitting his foot on the three-meter board in the later competition than the way he took second place in the one-meter event...
...ordered to be shot by his commander-in-chief, in a letter in Lee's own hand, January 14, 1864, in a camp outside Lexington. Instead, he escaped by knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward Alaska Bell after that Secretary of State and his purchase of territory from the Russians, and died in 1902, after twice being turned down for enlistment in the Spanish-American...