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They call themselves Inuit -- "the people" -- and they eke out simple lives in tiny communities scattered across the frozen tundra of the Northwest Territories. Last week, after 15 years of negotiations with Ottawa, an agreement was announced under which the Inuit will take political control of one-fifth of Canada's land area...
...severe economic woes -- its mountains of debt, its banking crisis, its depressed real estate market. But a consensus holds that peace and national pride will at least erase the preoccupation with war and TV bulletins that has turned the slush of a winter's recession into a frozen economic tundra. Among the areas showing signs of a peace-prompted thaw...
...dreamed of my nights camping on the Alaskan tundra. I dreamed of fending off packs of wolves by lying very still and pretending I was an icicle. It all seemed so real. It was just like I was back there...
...woke up with a start and realized that I have never, in reality, spent any nights camping on the Alaskan tundra...
...they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that erode into gullies. And oily wastes have leached out of supposedly secure dumps. The consequences of the contamination are unclear, but some scientists believe that since the permafrost confines biological activity to a layer...