Word: alaska
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...Milam, 39, is a rescue swimmer for the U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak, Alaska, which means he spends most of his time jumping out of helicopters to help fishermen who break bones and pilots who crash their private planes. "We're pretty much the area ambulance service," he says. Before he was dispatched to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Milam had never been called out of Alaska for a mission and had never done urban search-and-rescue work. But like thousands of other personnel, he was brought to Louisiana to do what the Coast Guard does...
...being consistent—both within internally and with the world at large. The gambling age should be set nationally at 18. At 21, it is undermined by one’s ability to buy lottery tickets (in all states but Iowa), play charity bingo (in all states but Alaska) and engage in parimutuel betting (in all states but Iowa and Texas). It is also undermined by one’s ability to gamble one’s life by serving in the military, and to gamble the future of the country by voting for the president and other elected...
...some, the newly bestowed names have a personal significance. Rennell said he hopes to name one peak after a mentor he had at a scout camp who died shortly before the club undertook its anniversary trek. Scott Powell instructed Rennell as a scoutmaster at Camp Gorsuch in Anchorage, Alaska, but died in a fire at a national Boy Scout jamboree shortly before the group embarked for Kyrgyzstan. “If there is anyone who influenced my life, who I’d want to name this mountain after, it would be Powell,” Rennell said...
...growth wood pulp in tissue products produced by Kimberly-Clark Corporation—the world’s largest manufacturer of tissue products. The groups also protested the provision of the federal budget reconciliation bill that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a protected wilderness area in Alaska, to oil exploration. The event drew nearly 40 Harvard undergraduates who were asked to call Kimberly-Clark executives and Cambridge’s congressional representatives. At the end of the event, a group of 21 students joined the event organizers for a photo, clad in Harvard sweatshirts and posing behind...
Since the 1970s, more than 800 Native Americans, natives of Hawaii, and natives of Alaska, have attended Harvard College, according to Lopez. In 1970, Harvard formed the American Indian Program at the Graduate School of Education, and more recently, the Project on American Indian Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Both of these programs are part of the Harvard University Native American Program, one of the University’s nine interfaculty initiatives...