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...promises to be a classic struggle. On one side: environmentalists, guardians of the 18 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which sits on Alaska's North Slope near the Canadian border. An untouched domain of musk oxen, polar bears, golden eagles, wolves and a cherished herd of 180,000 caribou, the preserve is one of the nation's last pristine animal ranges. The opposition: developers who seek the vast energy riches believed to lie beneath the refuge's 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. These reserves may hold as much as 5 billion to 30 billion...
Adventurous eaters can nibble on everything from bangers and mash (Britain) to buffalo steak and caribou stew (Northwest Territories). To sip with the caribou, there is clear water from an 8,000-year-old Canadian glacier. For those who wander through Vancouver itself--and everyone should--there is wide culinary variety, everything from Afghan to Mexican. On Granville Island, a yuppie heaven of high-priced condominiums and boutiques, several good restaurants on the water top coffee and dessert with a view of the 10 o'clock fireworks display, which signals the fair's nightly closing...
...governments," says Senator Paul Laxalt. "So the constituency for these people is the entire free-world economy." Joseph Canzeri, a former Reagan aide who calls himself a Washington "facilitator," notes, "It's a competitive business. There are a lot of wolves out there. But there are a lot of caribou in government...
Scobee found his true potential in the skies. After winning his Air Force wings in 1966, he logged more than 6,500 hours of flying time in 45 types of aircraft, ranging from the experimental X-24B to a Boeing 747 jumbo jet to the Caribou C-7 he flew on combat missions in Viet Nam. Scobee entered astronaut training in 1978 and helped fly the 747 that carried the shuttle spacecraft between ground stations. As pilot of Challenger in 1984, he guided the spacecraft so that fellow crew members could retrieve a broken Solar Max satellite, which was repaired...
...week's end, with 2 concern mounting that the I decaying remains of the " caribou carcasses could pollute the river system, a Canadian cleanup operation was clearing the freezing streams. Antlers were chopped off by Eskimo crew members, and the dead caribou, some weighing as much as 400 Ibs., were tied together in bunches to be airlifted to higher ground. Some carcasses were destined for mass burial, but others will be left for predators to feed on Says Canadian Biologist Alexander Banfield: "This is going to be a happy winter for the wolves...