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...television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...
...record. Some towns in the interior registered temperatures as low as -75 degrees F for days a time. As for Coldfoot, an unconfirmed reading there two weeks ago put the temperature at -82 degrees, colder than the official North American record of -81 degrees set in the Canadian Yukon in 1947. Alaska Governor Steve Cowper declared a state of emergency, requesting everyone to stay indoors as much as possible...
...agreement calling for $403 million and 109,000 sq. mi. of federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across the top of North America. Along with two other agreements covering parts of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon expected next spring, the accord appears to be the largest land transfer since the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia...
Fans of Poet Robert W. Service know that despite the title, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow; $13) is comic art. Some 80 years after the poem was composed, Painter Ted Harrison has complemented the work with bold and antic landscapes of the Yukon in the days of the gold rush. McGee, frozen over, demands, "I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." His listener agrees, only to find a surprise when he opens the furnace door. Sam is inside, burbling, "Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time...
Corporal Danny Fudge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stopped for coffee in a Yukon fishing village one day last summer and proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge...