Word: salmons
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...Alaska” in honor of Palin. The group’s Facebook profile advertises an open forum—time and location to be announced—on Sarah Palin the “poorly known but very attractive governor.” Smoked wild Alaskan sockeye salmon is supposed to be provided. —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...
...1980s, the oil pipeline from the North Slope carried 2 million bbl. a day. The flow is now about a third of that, and supplies are projected to dwindle further. Alaska has seen these boom-and-bust cycles before. The "seal mines" of the Pribilof Islands, the salmon canneries, the Klondike gold rush--all these short-lived booms appealed to what New Deal--era Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes once derided as Alaska's "gambling spirit." Palin is now rolling the dice on the national stage with a political persona based in part on her willingness to challenge...
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens has been known for decades as one of the most effective pork-barrel politicians in Congress. In his four decades in the Senate, he has helped funnel money to his home state for everything from volcano research to salmon fishing to the infamous "bridge to nowhere," work that has made been him beloved by his constituents but fiercely criticized by his opponents...
...more than $500 million in pork-barrel projects for Alaska in 2000, including funding for spruce trees, salmon, the study of volcanoes and reducing fetal alcohol syndrome...
...book tells the story of a genetic scientist named Toshiaki Nagashima, who works in a university lab. He and his wife Kiyomi share a breakfast of fried eggs, salted salmon and miso soup with tofu one morning before he heads off to work. Later that day he gets a call informing him that Kiyomi's car has mysteriously veered off the road and crashed into a telephone pole, and that she is now brain dead. From here the story unfolds backward, and clues reveal that something sinister took an interest in Kiyomi and Toshiaki long ago. We learn that Kiyomi...