Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska's desolate Brooks Range north of the Arctic Circle has a post office, a school and an airplane landing strip. But for all its modern trimmings, Anaktuvuk is barely out of the Stone Age. Its 15 families (averaging five children and 12 dogs each) are remnants of the nomadic Nunamiuts. Their lives are devoted to hunting the Arctic caribou, which supplies 90% of their food as well as most of their clothing. Merely to stay alive, one Nunamiut family must kill 90 caribou a year...
Radioactive Skimmings. University of Alaska Zoologist William O. Pruitt, an authority on caribou, gave the beasts a thorough going over and found that their flesh contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing...
...serious illnesses that can come from too much radiation, but no scientist can be confident that such symptoms will not appear. In the future, though, if the U.S. and Russia stick to their recently signed agreement to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, the contaminated lichens of northern Alaska will gradually lose their dangerous radioactivity. The body burdens of the caribou will fall little by little. Eventually the people of Anaktuvuk Pass will be no more radioactive than any other Americans...
...across the U.S., offering to perform the four against nine act for money. He got only one reply, from a town in faraway Florida, so off to Florida he went with three teammates. Since then King Eddie and his courtiers have performed in every state of the U.S. except Alaska, as well as in Latin America and Canada...
...market air conditioning, the world is full of wide open spaces waiting to be enclosed and climatized. They have sold central cooling to 200 homeowners in Alaska, induced Saudi Arabia's King Saud to provide air conditioning for 2,000 of his siblings, sons, sweethearts and hangers-on in the royal palace at Riyadh. An air-conditioned big league baseball stadium is going up in Houston, and $487,000 worth of cooling gear is being installed in the White House. Last week Carrier Corp., the industry's leader, landed an order to cool 180 new Chicago subway cars...