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Uemura resumed the trek after a new tent and fresh food supplies were airdropped. Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., were able to pinpoint Uemura's positions by monitoring signals from a 3½-lb. transmitter mounted on his sledge. The transmissions were picked up...
Fairbanks, Alaska
Rudyard Kipling, the laureate of British imperialism, of the white man's burden, and the stiff upper libido now seems a literary fossil. His world began to wobble after 1918 and the war that took the life of his son. The colonial India where he was born in 1865...
In a state twice as large as Texas, but with only half the population of Washington, D.C., the choices would seem limitless. But planners were faced with many troublesome restrictions. Because of the intense rivalry between Anchorage and Fairbanks, the No. 2 city (pop. 52,200). both were ruled out...
Still, some time may pass before construction begins. Pockets of resistance remain; some residents of Juneau and Fairbanks, annoyed because the new site is close to Anchorage, are still trying to scuttle the move. No one knows yet how the future capital will be financed (estimated cost: $2.64 billion) or...