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...Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come to grips with the logistics of a paramilitary operation," she explains. "Helicopters are large, dangerous objects, so we had to learn about the problems of flight path while not forgetting that we were designing...
...responsible for Lieu’s newfound hobby. Newman has introduced what he calls “guerrilla warfare tactics” to form a troop of dedicated contra enthusiasts. The craze has spread from his Grays East entryway all the way to Straus—and this Fairbanks, Alaska native has big plans for expansion...
...dance, an Americanized form of Old English and Scotch-Irish line dancing, Newman has been playing in contra bands since the age of 13, and counts himself as part of the “great diaspora of contra dancing” he says has spread all the way to Alaska. He not only plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, guitar and contra piano, but also wrote his Harvard admissions essay on contra and community building. “My admissions officer wrote me and said, ‘We need you here to liven things...
...name on them are a starting point for voters wanting a handle on his political heart. Two had to do with marine research and protecting fisheries and reflected his consistent concern for the environment. He became the early leader of the Democrats' drive to block Bush from drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He joined McCain to try, unsuccessfully, to raise average-fuel-economy standards to 36 m.p.g. by 2015, and he was an active supporter of the Kyoto accords to address global warming. The third law was designed to provide grants for women starting small businesses...
...INDICATORS Oil Under Fire U.S. lawyers filed suit against Royal Dutch/Shell after the Anglo-Dutch oil group slashed its proven reserves estimate by 20% last month. And a judge in Alaska ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $6.75 billion in damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...