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.
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H. (pop. 2, 600) looks more like a frontier post in Alaska than a town in New England.
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.
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.
Frontier shareholders got a 57% dividend decrease, while Alaska announced a 75% cut.
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.
Soon after, Alaska became a state, and in 1960 the Sheenjek River basin was included in a presidential executive order.
Fundamentally, Alaska is a pre-modern welfare state, where the economy is almost purely extractive (with the exception of defence and tourism).
Guns are woven into the culture of Alaska, a vast, rural state.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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All they achieved was a boycott by ferry operators and a lawsuit from Alaska, eventually dropped as a peace-offering.
In mid-2006, a BP pipeline burst in Alaska, resulting in a 200, 000-gallon spill which covered at least two acres of tundra.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) A Shell oil-drilling ship that ran aground near a remote Alaska island has been refloated, officials said early Monday.
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.
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