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...wolf pack has settled in Yellowstone, it could produce four to six pups annually, some of which could survive to disperse and colonize other parts of the park. "That's the way it happens," says Michael Hedrick, a wildlife biologist who monitored wolf packs on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. "First you get ambiguous sightings, then someone sees a family, and then the % floodgates open...
ELEC. VOTES CLINTON BUSH PEROT Alabama 9 41 48 11 Alaska* 3 39 36 25 Arizona* 8 41 37 21 Arkansas 6 53 36 11 California 54 46 35 19 Colorado 8 41 36 23 Connecticut 8 42 36 22 Delaware 3 44 36 21 District of Columbia 3 86 9 4 Florida 25 40 41 20 Georgia 13 43 43 14 Hawaii 4 50 36 14 Idaho 4 29 44 28 Illinois 22 49 34 17 Indiana 12 37 43 20 Iowa 7 43 38 19 Kansas 6 34 39 27 Kentucky 8 45 42 14 Louisiana...
...America, where Native Americans constitute a majority of the population in a few countries and a large minority in others, and where cultural tensions between ( Indians, mixed-bloods and descendants of the conquistadores have long been severe. Two groups of native peoples from nearly opposite ends of the hemisphere -- Alaska and Peru -- met at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City at the end of a month-long march to celebrate "500 years of survival." In the city, thousands of additional demonstrators danced and prayed on the Zocalo, the central square; still others hung a sign reading FIVE CENTURIES OF MASSACRE...
...some 12,000 years ago, toward the end of the last Ice Age, small bands of Asian nomads began to cross the dry land bridge that spanned what is now the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska. The migrations continued intermittently, and when melting ice flooded the land bridge, they stopped. These were the ancestors of the Sioux, Cherokee, Maya, Aztecs and all other Native Americans, and when they first arrived, they were hunter-gatherers like their Asian cousins...
...IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWing Hurricane Andrew's deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to the devastated area to assist the 200 stationed there. Many of the reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system, consisting of 80 shortwave radio units, 850 pagers, 173 cellular phones and a toll-free number. Allstate expects to pay out $1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims...