Word: iditarod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wildly popular Governor of Texas, the alpha dog in the G.O.P.'s presidential Iditarod, running 15 points ahead of Al Gore in the polls. It all looks perfect, except for those three small matters you can't do anything about: you look like your father, you sound like your father, and you're just one Herbert shy of sharing the old man's four-part name...
...Amount, along with a new truck, earned by Jeff King for driving a dogsled nine days in a blizzard to win the Iditarod...
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA: Five-time Iditarod winner Rick Swenson was booted from the Anchorage-to-Nome race after a dog on his team died 12 hours into the 10-day event. Swenson, who has run 20 of the Iditarod's 24 races and never lost a dog, is the first musher affected by a regulation added this year. Nicknamed "the dead dog rule," the provision declares that mushers will be disqualified if any of their dogs expire on the 1,151-mile trail due to a preventable error. Swenson reacted to his expulsion by saying that the Iditarod had become...
...balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with just three hours sleep in two days. Then the electrical and communications systems failed. As a pair of helicopters combed...