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...native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across the top of North America. Along with two other agreements covering parts of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon expected next spring, the accord appears to be the largest land transfer since the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia...
...winds across thousands of miles of the equatorial ocean, pushing a surge of warm water eastward. Miller, a Government oceanographer, abruptly realized he was looking at a mysterious natural engine that drives El Nino, the unruly fluctuation of weather that periodically afflicts places as widespread as South America, Asia, Alaska and Africa...
...short on cash and certainties, too restless for college, already back from a year of wandering that had taken him as far as Australia. The mine taught him what he wanted: out. He spent his wages on flying lessons and became a bush pilot in Alaska, the state with the bushiest piloting...
California's car-insurance rates are the third highest in the U.S., trailing only New Jersey's and Alaska's, according to A.M. Best, an industry research firm. (The company cautions that it is difficult to compare rates accurately because insurance laws differ from state to state.) Between 1982 and 1986, Best found, average annual premiums in California jumped 59%, to nearly $600. Nationally, average premiums increased 48%, to $440, during the same period...
...little more than a crude weapons platform -- underpowered, poorly built and laced with dangerously primitive electrical wiring. Soviet jet engines still burn out early and guzzle more fuel than comparable U.S. power plants. The Soviets continue to fly 1950s-era propeller-driven Bear-H reconnaissance bombers on patrols off Alaska and the U.S.'s Eastern Seaboard. New jet fighters like the MiG-29, a downsized version of the 14-year-old U.S. F-15, leave skeptics unimpressed. After inspecting a MiG-29 in the Soviet Union, a delegation of U.S. experts found the plane's electronics and fabrication...