Word: alaska
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Mark H. Helmericks '82 of Colville, Alaska, and Winthrop House was Harvard's American recipient of a Rhodes. In addition, Laurence S. Grafstein '82 of Toronto, Ontario, and Winthrop House was awarded a scholarship from the Canadian Ontario Rhodes Scholarship committee...
Home educated in an Alaskan village of 11 people, Helmericks came to Harvard after high school at a Fairbanks, Alaska, boarding school. He now divides his time between rowing lightweight crew and writing his Geology thesis...
...cost that could exceed $43 billion, the 4,800-mile Alaska-Canada natural gas pipeline will be the most expensive privately financed construction project in history, surpassing by far the $9 billion spent on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline during the 1970s. Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already approved by the Senate that could make the project the most controversial as well...
...vote, the lawmakers approved a package of waivers to the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act, which set the ground rules for the project as early as 1976. The three U.S. natural gas producers involved in the deal-Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio and Atlantic Richfield-will be allowed to share ownership in the pipeline with the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co., the ten-company consortium that plans to build it. A1977 presidential decision barred such an agreement on antitrust grounds, but the backers argued that the change was needed to pay for the project...
...rationale for the pipeline has been that the country needs Alaska's gas in order to become more energy independent. The 26 trillion cu. ft. under Alaska's North Slope are equal to 13% of U.S. proven reserves and could reduce foreign-oil imports by at least...