Word: alaska
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Anchorage, Alaska...
...Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will hold primaries; Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Washington will hold caucuses. At stake: 1,003 delegates...
That is quite a feat in a world in which most new housing from Alaska to Zanzibar looks distressingly alike...
With crude prices stagnant, the market value of energy firms is weak and some companies are selling for less than the worth of their assets. At the same time, oil executives are discovering that it is often cheaper to buy new reserves than to explore for them. In Alaska's promising Mukluk field, for instance, major oil companies have put an estimated $1.7 billion into exploration, but have so far turned up only a $140 million dry hole...
PRESUMED DEAD. Naomi Uemura, 43, intrepid Japanese mountain climber and adventurer; after the National Park Service ended an eight-day search for him on Mount McKinley; in Alaska. Three weeks ago Uemura became the first climber to make a solo ascent of North America's highest peak (20,320 ft.) in midwinter, but he lost radio contact the next day and was last spotted by a pilot on Feb. 16. The only remnants found by searchers were his snowshoes, a diary and the two 17-ft.-long bamboo poles he used to test the firmness of snow...