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...shorter sequel, subtitled Hav of the Myrmidons, a reference to the state's new cultlike leadership. "I hadn't planned to do another novel," says Morris from her home in the Welsh village of Llanystumdwy, where she has just said goodbye to a group of admirers from Canada's Yukon Territory. ("We get a lot of visitors up here, especially in the summer.") But the World Trade Center attack and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq changed her mind. "I wondered what had happened to Hav since 9/11. The gloomy picture I present is clearly what I feel...
...spike in gas prices is the last thing Detroit needs now, especially General Motors, which had been banking on the launch of redesigned, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade to help boost sales this year. A few years ago, automakers could count on a core group of 1.5 million households to buy full-size SUVs, according to Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research. Even before this year, higher gas prices had eroded that market. Only about 700,000 U.S. households are now in the market for full-size models. That's why automakers...
...modern Russia and Alaska at the end of the last ice age, when sea level was hundreds of feet lower than it is today. From there, the earliest immigrants would have made their way south through an ice-free corridor that geologists know cut through what are now the Yukon and Mackenzie river valleys, then along the eastern flank of the Canadian Rockies to the continental U.S. and on to Latin America...
...Besaw. The awards’ emphasis on self-sufficiency has led to “a change within Indian nations themselves” as focus shifts from membership to citizenship, she said. Besaw cites two High Honor award recipients—the Professional Empowerment Program (PEP) and the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council—as examples of innovative programs that strengthen Indian nations. PEP is “a therapeutic approach to people who either are at risk for losing their job [or] have been terminated,” Joyce Country, a social worker with the program, wrote...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) once drew international fame for impressive expeditions that included leading the United States Army’s 10th Mountain Division in the 1940s, climbing in the Himalayas in the 1950s, and making first ascents of certain mountains in the Canadian Rockies, the Yukon, and Alaska...