Word: alaskan
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...dumped 11 million gallons of syrupy crude, creating a 500-mi.-long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented its stated environmental and social aims. But Wenman doesn't work for Greenpeace. He was there at the oil company's expense, as the head of accounting firm Ernst & Young's environmental-services group, conducting an audit no mere accountant...
...nursing sea lions, both mothers and pups can starve. That's why the Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm, has sued the U.S. government for failing to protect areas vital to endangered marine mammals. The group's litigation director, Peter Van Tuyn, points out that in southeast Alaskan waters, where there is little industrial fishing of pollack, the sea lion population has held up relatively well. And fur seals in the Pribilofs have done better than sea lions, perhaps because they have a more varied diet...
What to Look For Writer and director John Sayles won acclaim for Lone Star, his 1996 drama about a working-class Texan who must come to terms with his storied past. This summer Sayles brings us Limbo, a drama about a working-class Alaskan who must come to terms with his storied past. Deja vu aside, considering Sayles' proven track record, this art-house release may be worth checking...
...first week online and a solid showing during a time of year when business is traditionally slow. Customers from as far away as Alaska are using the Web to purchase the same 78 products the store sells in Portland, including jumbo gulf shrimp, live Maine lobsters and even Alaskan king-crab legs. Just as importantly, from Hanson's point of view, taking orders over the Internet has freed up some of his 30 employees to help customers at the store's counter. "I couldn't afford to have people on the phone all day processing orders," he says. "The website...
...Obscure Alaskan Senator TED STEVENS appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...