Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some, the program acts as a stepping stone to other careers. After his stint at the K-School Bruce R. Theriault, a former general manager of a National Public Radio affiliate in Alaska, hopes to move on to "different and new challenges related to media and managing in the public sector." "I hope to be able to utilize the networking feature," says Theriault. "It works two ways--the contacts you develop and what you do for other people...
Iowa has promised Kentucky 240 wild turkeys for 120 river otters. Colorado gave away pine martens, a relative of the weasel, for otters from Wisconsin. An official from Minnesota plans to travel to Alaska to get 50 trumpeter swan eggs. In one of the more elaborate wildlife trades to date, Idaho sent 50 chukar partridges to North Dakota, which sent 150 sharp-tailed grouse to Kansas, which sent 50 wild turkeys to Idaho. The trading has even taken on an international flavor. Michigan made an across-the-border swap with Canada: wild turkeys for moose. "It's like trading baseball...
...sophomore grades weren't abysmal, but McCall's cumulative GPA was low enough to prevent him from advancing to junior year. So he left, worked in Alaska for a summer, and spent the next year at the University of Washington...
...sincerely understand why some people might not be following the 7-2 Crimson as closely as they would like to. For instance, Diana Gallup of Palmer, Alaska, said, "We can't always keep up to date with events back East...
Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...