Word: skagway
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...names are narcotic: Skagway, Unalakleet, the Hazy Islands, Turnagain Arm. Saying ''Talkeetna'' aloud clears a city man's mind of lint. Whispering ''Aniakchak'' cures nervous debility. Think ''Last month, off Ketchikan'' while futilized in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway, and all the other cars disappear. Zap, there they go. Last month, off Ketchikan, from an altitude of about 1,000 ft., Bush Pilot Dale Clark spotted something glinting in the water of Carroll Inlet. He pointed. ''Down there, see?'' His passenger, a sightseer from the Lower 48, saw nothing but salt water. Clark, a burly, bearded...
...know a place in a way you never would otherwise," says Seid. "You get to see some pretty spectacular things. I saw a place that was announced as the birthplace of Homer, which it clearly wasn't. I got to see and cover the Acropolis." In Skagway, Alaska, another r-dub was shown an abandoned brothel. Under the floorboards she found an array of strange and terrible contraceptive devices of the Nineteenth Century. In South Africa, a female r-dub had to find the words to explain gently to a local that she was not in fact interested in doing...