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...teepee-camp program is being funded by an $803,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Healthy Nations program to reduce the damage caused by substance abuse among Native Americans. The foundation is sponsoring 12 other similar programs, including an Inupiat kayak expedition near Nome, Alaska, and an Apache multimedia campaign against alcohol and drugs in the White Mountains of Arizona...
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...
...Marius, our favorite, a furlough in Nome...
...stops," the voice announced with an assumption of authority. "It'll be a little awkward, since we are going to the A's we missed. We are going to Alabama, then we're going to go to Arizona, and then we're going to make one quick stop in Nome before coming home to finally give you a rest...
...they really sports worthy of the Winter Olympics? Do ski ballet and aerials and moguls, short-track skating, curling and speed skiing display the requisite patina of frostbitten history and frigid heritage? Do they evoke the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that is Nome...