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...polls last week and narrowly approved a plan to split the vast region in two. Once a chain of legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
...time of the Medgar Evers episode, manyconsidered Counter to be a leader in theAfrican-American community. He had already beenfeatured in the Dewar's ad, and his new book andfilm from his arctic trips--The North PoleLegacy Black, White and Eskimo--received aspecial NAACP Image award...
There Anderson is mission scientist at the Arctic Airborne Stratosphere Experiment, which is collecting data on the chemical composition of the ozone layer...
...timorous Norwegian trainer is complaining now. Ulvang and his teammate Bjorn Daehlie each won three golds and a silver, leading the national team to 20 medals, a phenomenal haul in light of Norway's population of only 4.2 million. Ulvang's four-medal streak sparked such jubilation in his Arctic hometown of Kirkenes that the local stock of champagne...
...highly confident going down to Yale just as the narwhale is sure that it will dominate the arctic seas as a predator," said Co-Captain George Polsky...