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...daunting. Says National Center for Atmospheric Research's Francis Bretherton: "Suppose it's August in New York City. The temperature is 95 degrees; the humidity is 95%. The heat wave started on July 4 and will continue through Labor Day." While warmer temperatures might boost the fish catch in Alaska and lumber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, he says, the Great Plains could become a dust bowl; people would move north in search of food and jobs, and Canada might rival the Soviet Union as the world's most powerful nation. Bretherton admits that his scenario is speculative...
...smoky barbecue flavors -- the last being an almost inedible, acridly bittersweet and sticky mass. The clear plastic-sealed chickens and chicken parts are being introduced in the mid-Atlantic states and Memphis (home of the Holly Farms parent company); before long they will be available in all states except Alaska, Hawaii and, possibly, California...
...school starts this fall in Tununak, a tiny Eskimo community on the windswept coast of Alaska, Teacher Ben Orr is planning to invite elderly storytellers into the classroom so his young students can learn and then write down traditional legends and lore of their vanishing culture. For Donna Maxim's third-graders in Boothbay, Me., writing will become a tool in science and social studies as students record observations, questions and reactions about what they discover each day. In Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders...
...rights to some 40% of the new gold-digging projects in Montana, Nevada and other Western states. In Northern California, foreign investors have picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
...well. Until last week Moscow had been willing to agree only to eliminate intermediate- and shorter- range missiles from Europe while insisting on retaining 100 intermediate- range SS-20 missiles in Asia. In return the U.S. would have been allowed to deploy 100 intermediate-range Pershing IIs in Alaska...