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...estimates reflect the failure of recent exploration in Alaskan waters and the Atlantic. As a result, oil companies have shown waning interest in searching those once promising areas. "The assumption was that our domestic resources were simply there for the taking," said James Curlin, the Office of Technology Assessment official who directed the new study. "Now we had better start looking at alternatives...
...summit also tackled more controversial matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet...
...results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned in a patrician living room, balanced on an Alaskan canoe, or dumped on Rajneeshian haystack demands that the viewer look at the aesthetic and intellectual content of a medium that is often considered simple substitute for sight...
Dartmouth was founded as an Indian college, but in 200 years only a dozen Indians graduated. But the Native American Program, started in the early seventies, now counts about 200 Native American alumni, according to the Admissions Office. This semester alone, 43 American Indians. Hawaiians, and Alaskan natives are enrolled in the program...
Stevens has worried publicly that his roots in an offshore state could hurt him; much of his legislative time has been spent arguing key constituent issues, such as the Alaskan pipeline and treatment of his state's protected natural resources. But that same distance from the more controversial national issues--such as abortion--might rebound to his benefit. By not identifying himself with entangling and emotionally polarizing issues, experts say, Stevens may have managed to avoid alienating key Senate decision-makers...