Word: alaskans
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Congressional hearings continue this week on BP's Alaskan oil pipeline. Corrosion led to a spill in March and a shutdown last month. The oil giant faces steep fines and stricter regulations...
...want big checks like the $150 million Chafee brought back from the $27 billion highway bill, vote for him. Rhode Island gets the short end of the stick when it comes to earmarks. I mean, the bridge to nowhere alone was $223 million," he says, referring to the famed Alaskan boondoggle. "I'm going to vote against all that...
DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...
...taught entirely in Polish. In times like these, we all need our potatoes. Americans, on the other hand, epitomize the anti-potato attitude. If not carbohydrates, we worry about carcinogenic vegetables, radioactive cell phones, and toxic seafood. Incidentally, small talk on Polish trains never gets near PCBs or farmed Alaskan salmon. Americans wonder if what’s on their plate will do them in. Poles wonder if you’d like some more potatoes. So, it seems I’m in for a potatoey summer, but should you decide to visit, you won’t find...
...only getting started. I was lucky enough to live with wonderful roommates during my freshman year. They got to know me, never judged me, and became my salvation as I struggled with my science Core courses and endured the skin-piercing winds that turned my walks to Annenberg into Alaskan expeditions. But these bitter elements soon melted into the month of March, bringing with it an entirely new challenge: blocking. I wound up in Currier, while my roommates—some of the closest friends I had ever had—were assigned to Dunster, the veritable opposite pole...