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Poised between the Pacific and southeast Alaskan coastal glaciers lies Tongass National Forest. Don't let the Alaska address fool you: Tongass is a rain forest. Protected from snow by the tree canopy and from the frigid air by the warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser...
...below-market-cost timber from the Tongass to make dissolving pulp, a cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway by passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act, which forced KPC to pay market prices. KPC later sued for breach of contract and threatened to close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract...
...locates major cities according to where Tootsie Rolls are made and sold. Then she turns to her reading: if her class makes enough progress in The Berenstain Bears at the Teen Rock Cafe, they will win a party at the local Pizza Hut. Her science lesson--Scientists and the Alaskan Oil Spill--comes to her courtesy of none other than Exxon...
...money-making scheme proceeds smoothly until a gang of Alaskan loggers arrive bringing with them a woodcutter who is dissatisfied with Mahagonny. In the Lowell production, Jimmy McIntyre (Emmanuel Mani Cadet) is portrayed as somehow more innocent and pure than his fellow men despite his almost immediate adoption of Jenny (Laura Bewig) as his prostitute and lover. Director Kirk Williams portrays Jimmy's dissatisfaction as stemming from Mahagonny's obvious flaws (its lack of concern for anything other than human pleasure), while the libretto itself and an understanding of Brecht's theater would indicate that Jimmy is no better than...
...crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern seen in the rest of the world...