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Into the Wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a good kid from a prosperous but unhappy family, who left home, burned his money, changed his name to Alexander Supertramp and in 1992 walked off into the Alaskan wilderness. He died there of starvation 16 weeks after he arrived. What was he looking for? Penn and Vedder--who are a lot funnier than they get credit for--talked to TIME'S LEV GROSSMAN about this and other profound questions, like how you keep a huge grizzly bear happy on a movie...
...former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. "It's like you've hired a contractor to build a kitchen, and they've forgotten to build a stove that doesn't catch on fire." Still, the SBX has, in fact, spent about a month in Alaskan waters to test its ruggedness in rough weather, from which it emerged unscathed...
...same day the bill passed, federal agents raided the Alaska home of Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican Senator in history. The Justice Department is targeting Stevens and Representative Don Young (R., Alaska) as part of an investigation of two former execs at Veco, an Alaskan energy-services company. Both execs pled guilty in May to bribery. While Stevens was chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and Young chaired the Transportation Committee, Veco landed more than $40 million in federal contracts. If corruption sweeps the GOP from power in Congress, Dems in Alaska hope that if they continue to seize...
...extent to which it now references its surroundings. The exterior architecture was inspired in part by the tectonic plates that gave rise to Alaska's mountains. Large windows flood the interior with light. In the new art gallery, paintings and photographs hang next to ceremonial objects and carvings by Alaskan natives-the message being that traditional crafts have as much cultural importance as fine art. But it's the museum's most innovative display that best captures the region. The Place Where You Go to Listen, the vision of Fairbanks artist John Luther Adams, is a computerized chamber that translates...
...used to be. Some bears have been resorting to cannibalism to survive and others are simply turning up drowned, trapped in open water as they try to paddle to ice floes that have melted away. In one month in 2005, more than 50 bears were observed swimming in the Alaskan Beaufort...