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...black bears that wander into the backyard can be pretty exciting. But visitors to the eminently cozy Mount Juneau Inn in Juneau, Alaska, tend to save their best reviews for Leo, the bed-and-breakfast's low-key resident MacKenzie River husky. "He's the world's greatest dog," raves New Jerseyite Christine de Vries...
...broad, blind one. Buy time for Social Security, or try to reform it. Increase the government's role in health care, or decrease it. Get the federal government on the education problem, or get the states to handle it. Spend more, or spend less. Stay out of Alaska, or drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know how to do it best. So just pick where...
...northwestern state of Acre, the forest was burning again. Cardoso was forced to cancel his trip. Now Nepstad estimates that fully one-third of the remaining dense forest in the Brazilian Amazon will be vulnerable in the near future. The deforested area could grow big enough to swallow Alaska and California combined. And soon: during the past two decades, El Ni?os, which set the stage for fires, seem to have become stronger, more frequent and longer lasting. If this pattern holds, the next powerful El Ni?o is not far in the future...
Gore retorted that finding new sources of oil in places like Alaska would hurt the environment...
...Certainly if the just-tuning-in, undecided voter were tuning in for issues, Round 1 could not have disappointed. On the surplus (big tax cut or small tax cuts), Social Security (privatize some or not), energy policy (drill Alaska or not to drill Alaska), and anything else one might have been listening for, the differences were clear and usually cheerfully admitted...