• They found that when earthquakes struck in nearly the same place years or decades apart, seismic waves generated by the later quakes arrived in Alaska a little sooner than they had the time before.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth's core runs ahead of crust

  • H. (pop. 2, 600) looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • By 7 a.m. four enormous white ships carrying up to 9, 000 people have docked in Skagway, a town in southeast Alaska with a year-round population of 862.

    FORBES

  • Hunkered down in the hills just 16 kilometers south of the Canadian border, Colebrook, New Hampshire (pop. 2, 600), looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • Frontier shareholders got a 57% dividend decrease, while Alaska announced a 75% cut.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Separately, in August, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, signed a bill allowing TransCanada Alaska to build a 1, 715-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay to Alberta, Canada.

    CNN: Study: Tap natural gas from Alaska's frozen areas

  • Soon after, Alaska became a state, and in 1960 the Sheenjek River basin was included in a presidential executive order.

    NPR: Mardy Murie, Alaska's Passionate Protector

  • Fundamentally, Alaska is a pre-modern welfare state, where the economy is almost purely extractive (with the exception of defence and tourism).

    ECONOMIST: The London Stock Exchange

  • Guns are woven into the culture of Alaska, a vast, rural state.

    WSJ: Background-Check Gun Measure Fails in the Senate

  • The film that cemented Anschutz's partnership with Baldwin was Mystery, Alaska, a box-office clunker about a small-town hockey team that plays the New York Rangers.

    FORBES: Morality Play

  • The responsibility extends from the U.S. forces on the West Coast of the United States and Alaska to a dividing line between India and Pakistan.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing with Ben Rhodes and Admiral Robert Willard

  • The film that originally cemented Anschutz's partnership with Baldwin was Mystery, Alaska, a box office clunker about a small-town hockey team playing against the New York Rangers.

    FORBES: Morality Play

  • Bush has proposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a solution, but Younts thinks the United States should look elsewhere to solve the problem.

    CNN: Talk at A&M on gas prices and election

  • And, finally, Mr. President, Alaska is a great land.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Opens Tribal Nations Conference

  • "We're giving away finite resources when we should be trying to get the maximum value for them, " said Jay Cross, a retired Alaska Guardsman who is a volunteer for Democratic presidential nominee Sen.

    CNN: Palin's swift rise is the talk of her Alaskan town

  • Leads were still trickling in, but Murtie was surprised to hear authorities in Alaska had a man in custody who'd confessed to killing the couple and disposing of their bodies in an abandoned farmhouse.

    WSJ: Trying to unlock secrets of dead serial killer

  • When Mr. Begich was in Alaska during a recent, two-week congressional recess, he was confronted in the airport and at virtually every event by constituents urging him to oppose the background-check legislation, according to aides.

    WSJ: Background-Check Gun Measure Fails in the Senate

  • That would certainly be a better insurance policy for America, the world's biggest gas-guzzler, than drilling in pristine parts of Alaska for a small amount of expensive oil that could not reach the market for nearly a decade.

    ECONOMIST: Oil

  • Palin said when running for governor in 2006 that she would support funding for abstinence-only education in schools, according to Eagle Forum Alaska, a conservative group that sent a questionnaire asking gubernatorial candidates their views on a range of issues.

    CNN: Palin's teen daughter is pregnant

  • In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".

    BBC: War on Christmas: Is the festival under attack?

  • There Browne began to take a harder look at the promise of deepwater drilling, largely out of necessity:He took charge of exploration and determined that Sohio's oil projects outside of Alaska were a mishmash of expensive properties that would never yield a proper profit.

    FORBES: Going deep

  • She was governor of Alaska which is the 6th WEALTHIEST STATES IN AMERICA and accomplished in 6 months what all Alaskans had only attempted to do from the time Alaska became a state in regulating the oil industry and getting the gas pipeline built.

    FORBES: Sarah Palin Goes Grizzly At Glenn Beck Rally

  • The man makes French toast and waffles and ham and eggs and pancakes and cereal and Pop-Tarts and brownies and hot dogs and hamburgers and baked Alaska and a birthday cake in the shape of a castle and pours glasses of milk and orange juice and coffee and Tang and Kool-Aid and water and puts ice in all of the glasses.

    NEWYORKER: The TV

  • For example, Susan Godfrey of Morristown, New Jersey, was recently returning home from a trip to Alaska, which required a stop and change of planes in Seattle.

    BBC: Is travel insurance right for you?

  • And a caveat: Yes, Palin has her fans, but most political analysts see a potential presidential run by the former Alaska governor as a non-starter.

    FORBES: New Hampshire, Iowa Voters "Like" Palin Best: Is Facebook Officially Broken?

  • He sees a great future for Alaska if the state will reform a problematic tax code and appears confident that Alaska politicians understand their interests clearly and will meet industry halfway.

    WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Bob Dudley: Three Years After the Spill, BP Gets Bullish

  • All they achieved was a boycott by ferry operators and a lawsuit from Alaska, eventually dropped as a peace-offering.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • In mid-2006, a BP pipeline burst in Alaska, resulting in a 200, 000-gallon spill which covered at least two acres of tundra.

    FORBES: A Tale Of Two CEOs, BP vs. Massey: Part I, BP

  • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A Shell oil-drilling ship that ran aground near a remote Alaska island has been refloated, officials said early Monday.

    NPR: Grounded Shell Oil-Drilling Ship Refloated

  • By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.

    FORBES: Exxon Valdez Lawyers Circling The BP Spill

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