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...fine. The thought of big nations finding yet another vested interest in their landscape isn't universally thrilling in Greenland, which has been a strategic military outpost for the U.S. and Denmark since the Cold War. Inuit hunters were displaced when the American military set up camp at the Thule Air Base on the island's northwest shore in the 1950s, and Inuit hunters were the first to be exposed when a B-52 carrying hydrogen bombs crashed near the base in 1968. "We are fragile, both in terms of the climate crisis and because of the military buildup...
...Republic National Bank of Miami, the loan seemed sound: an $800,000 mortgage on a Coral Gables, Fla., home worth $1.2 million. But the U.S. ! Attorney seized the house in March because it was owned by Thule Holding Corp., a Panamanian company controlled by Indalecio Iglesias, a convicted drug trafficker...
Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson. The first wife of the late John Berryman looks back at the years she spent among a brilliant and damaged generation of poets. The Last Kings of Thule by Jean Malaurie. An Arctic adventurer in the tradition of Peary, Cook and Rasmussen poignantly describes the lives of Greenland's Eskimo nomads as the 20th century encroaches on their Sahara of ice and snow...
...though they did not know it, their immortality was in his cold fingers. Whenever necessary, he would remove his mittens to record minute details of traditional life. "It is the search for time newly refound that I offer the reader," says Malaurie. The result, The Last Kings of Thule, is a poignant, endlessly informative valedictory that relives a great Arctic adventure in the tradition of Peary, Cook and Rasmussen...
...sort of trouble their ancestors could not have dreamed of. Danish welfare, a money system and processed foods have badly stretched the bonds that give a hunting society its cohesiveness and strength. Eating no longer requires special skills or cunning, even for the foxes who gorge themselves at the Thule airbase garbage dump...