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...Quad in the Alaska Klub’s simulation of the Alaskan Iditarod Saturday. The Klub contest’s winners received 1,049 ounces of beer instead of the generous monetary award for winners of the official Iditarod, a 1,049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska that ended on Saturday. Five members of each human Iditarod team ran around the MAC Quad, pulling the ropes attached to a homemade sled on which the sixth team member sat. The prize went to the hotter non-contiguous state, as members of the Hawaii Club reached the finish line first...
...able to do more of the interesting part," says Charlie Berger, a retired veterinarian who, upon moving to East Bettford, Vt., took two Alaskan wolves with him. In his spare time he volunteers to tend the dogs in sled races, such as the Iditarod that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last year he led a 500-mile canoe trip down the Yukon...
...Nome, Alaska...
...into the art behind the scenes: Dalí's sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction, Man Ray's creation of a metro-nome with an eye pasted onto the pendulum, is copied four times in the dream scene; the original is on display here...
...were in Nome, Alaska, and we were in a little lean-to shack. All we had was a hoagie and a bombardier skidoo. So we burned the bandmates, got warm, ate our hoagie and rode off on the bombardier skidoo...