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...pesky swelling called Montauk knee was causing trouble. In 1908 something indistinguishable from Lyme disease was described in Sweden. Ticks hitch rides not just on deer, mice, humans and other mammals, but also on birds, which helps explain why Lyme disease has been reported in 46 states. (Only Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska have reported no cases...
...nonsentimental environmentalism is one founded on Protagoras' maxim that "Man is the measure of all things." Such a principle helps us through the thicket of environmental argument. Take the current debate raging over oil drilling in a corner of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Environmentalists, mobilizing against a bill working its way through Congress to permit such exploration, argue that we should be conserving energy instead of drilling for it. This is a false either/or proposition. The country does need a sizable energy tax to reduce consumption. But it needs more production too. Government estimates indicate a nearly fifty-fifty...
...Soviet and Alaskan businessmen, in the meantime, have come to town proposing to build what they are calling Perestroyka Palace, a park for disco, diplomacy and dealmaking. Plans call for an $18 million palace modeled after St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, linked symbolically to an Alaska mining- and trading-company post by a bridge over a man-made reproduction of the Bering Strait...
VIDEO Life is a little too loopy in Cicely, Alaska...
...late-season run, is this spring's hottest conversation piece. Fans in big cities from New York to San Francisco are entranced by the backwoods whimsy; so are Sunbelt viewers like Bonnie Mintz, a court clerk from Winter Park, Fla., who started the first Northern Exposure fan club. In Alaska the series has prompted some grumpy newspaper stories (THIS MAN THINKS WE'RE A BUNCH OF PSYCHOTIC RED-NECKS, blared one headline next to a picture of star Morrow), but viewers are warming to it. Says Tom Tatka, an Anchorage attorney who moved to Alaska 20 years ago: "It gives...