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...Naughton, of Kodiak, Alaska, opened her franchise five months ago after being taken to a Curves by her daughter in Palmer, Alaska. When Naughton, 47, cracked her nest egg for the initial $19,900 investment, her husband thought she was nuts, she says. She has already made half the money back (and dropped from a size 18 to a 12). "I never pictured myself in this profession," says Naughton, a former Teamster driver on the TransAlaska pipeline. What got her interested, she says, is that Curves customers seemed to be having fun--a word not often associated with lifting weights...
...worked for auction-technology firm Ariba and networking giant Cisco Systems. His year-old start-up counts as customers Dow Chemical, Ford, Lucent, Owens Corning and Staples. "The fact that these creme de la creme companies have signed up validates the idea," says Lou Volpe, 52, a partner at Kodiak Ventures, which has invested $6 million in IE-Engine...
...suspicion of things around us is more toxic than any threat. It won't be nerve gas that destroys us--it will be our own fears." AMY M. MALLOY Kodiak, Alaska...
...lobbying finally paid off as other native Alaskans warmed to conservation. By 1998, nearly 700,000 acres of coastal habitat from Kodiak Island to Prince William Sound were protected, giving a windfall of $380 million to the native corporations...
...fish. To make matters worse, you urge consumers to "help out" by eating just farm-raised salmon! Sending that message to readers serves only to cripple further an industry that has steadily been losing market share for its wild, free-roaming salmon to those that are farmed. LAINE WELCH Kodiak, Alaska JUST SAY NO TO SHARK-FIN SOUP...