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...more costly pipeline that follows a roundabout path. Called the Southern Route, it starts at the North Slope and heads south along the Alaskan highway before turning east into Canada. A far more direct path, called the Northern Route, would have cut across the north coast of Alaska and hooked up in Canada with the recently announced Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Both lines ultimately would feed into trunk lines in Alberta and serve the U.S. market...
...meandering route? In 2001 the Alaska state legislature enacted a law blocking the cheaper northern pipeline. Lawmakers wanted a pork-barrel project to keep construction and supplier jobs in the state. State representative Jim Whitaker, a Fairbanks Republican who sponsored the measure, summed up the state's attitude: "The legislature has a responsibility to ensure that Alaska gas goes to market in a manner that is in the maximum best interest of the people of the state of Alaska." Congress has agreed...
Davis' plight is grim, but it's hardly unique. States across the nation are struggling with falling revenues and budget crises, and overall spending by the states is set to decline for the first time in 20 years. New York is hiking income and sales taxes, Alaska is charging higher fees on studded tires, and Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn is suing the state assembly for failing to pass a budget on time. In 2000, the states had rainy-day funds that totaled nearly $50 billion; last week only $6 billion of that was left. But California, with its $38 billion...
...Uganda but did not appear in the U.S. until 1999. That year it sent 62 people to the hospital, killing seven. By last year those numbers had exploded to 4,156 cases and 284 deaths in 40 states. This year it is expected to strike every state but Alaska and Hawaii...
...daily life, work and death of the prisoners, their survival mechanisms and their resistance. She has read just about everything written on the subject. This includes the brilliant memoirs of Lev Razgon, the bleak searing stories and poems of Varlaam Shalamov, the son of an orthodox missionary to Alaska who spent over 20 years in the most horrific of the camps. (He died, largely unrecognized, in misery in Moscow in 1982. There are few happy endings to Gulag stories.) But she makes superb use of the Gulag records and internal reports which, she notes, report the horrors of the camps...