Word: glaciers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first person to report that something was amiss was Guide Mike Branham, 40, a strapping six-footer who each spring flies a pontoon plane full of bear hunters into a cove on Russell Fjord, in Alaska's southeastern panhandle. This year he discovered that things had changed: Hubbard Glacier was on the move -- at a most unglacial pace of about 40 ft. per day. "We saw the glacier advance like it never had before," says Branham. That was in April. Within weeks, the leading edge of ice had sealed off the fjord at its opening, turning the 32-mile-long...
...chart), a salmon-spawning stream that is the economic lifeblood of Yakutat. If the lake overflows, the clear Situk could become a destructive torrent of silty water about 20 times its present volume, unfit for salmon and fishermen. "In another 500 to 1,000 years," says Mayo, "Hubbard Glacier could fill Yakutat Bay, as it did in about 1130." Susie Abraham, 85, a silver-haired elder of Yakutat's native Tlingit Indian tribe, is fatalistic. "This place where we sit," she says, "belongs to the great glacier...
...have said that they are "encouraged" by Reagan's letter, and have refrained from public sniping. They have agreed to 13 new educational, scientific and cultural exchanges, following the successful U.S. tour of the Kirov Ballet this summer. All together, says a Western diplomat, "we are satisfied that this glacier is beginning to move...
...each of the women, the trip to Alaska's Portage Glacier marked a beginning and an end. There on Memorial Day, Louisiana Democratic Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Pegge Begich dedicated the $8 million Begich-Boggs Visitor Center, a memorial to their husbands, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs and Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, who together perished in a plane crash in the area while Boggs was campaigning for Begich in 1972. Lindy Boggs had come, on the anniversary of her husband's death, not only to open the center but help Begich campaign for the seat once held by her husband. Begich...
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...