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Flying in a seaplane up the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia you see little but forested hills, a myriad of islands and the blue waters of the narrow channel that runs from Seattle to the Alaska Panhandle. As the plane drops over a ridge, a floating hut appears, anchored in the channel and nestled in a grid of net-covered pens. It all looks innocuous enough--no smoking chimneys, no visible plumes of discharge, no growling of chainsaws, not even a road...
...first listen, one may assume that this statement originated from a person facing exile to the Death Valley, the glaciers of Alaska, or perhaps some foreign country...
...G.O.P. will propose an energy bill that includes drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, long opposed by enviros. Also likely is revival of a proposal to increase logging in some areas to reduce the threat of wildfires; opponents call it a giveaway to the timber industry. Incoming Environment Committee chairman James Inhofe of Oklahoma is pro-industry. It's a dark time for the greens...
...they plan to send a raft of Bush's favorite bills, which they passed early in his term, back to the G.O.P.-controlled Senate. While popular with conservatives, some of the items on that list--a ban on partial-birth abortions and an energy package that includes drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for example--remain unpalatable to the centrists who are still critical to passing big-ticket legislation. The White House is wary of sending another moderate Republican like Jeffords running to the other side of the aisle. Says a Republican lobbyist: "If they're committed...
...countries combined have just over 20,000 troops - but from the new pan-Baltic radar network known as BaltNet. U.S. General Joseph W. Ralston, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, calls the system "one of the best I've ever seen. We'd love to have it at NORAD in Alaska." With its central monitoring station in Karmelava, Lithuania, 100 km west of Vilnius, BaltNet can track any aircraft in Baltic airspace. The $100 million system - funded by the U.S. and Norway - enables the mixed Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian crews to monitor planes flying over Russia's nearby, heavily militarized, enclave...