Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Young barely leads Parnell
152 VOTES: GOP House primary will take weeks to decide. By SEAN COCKERHAM scockerham@adn.com (08/28/08 02:17:54) U.S. Rep. Don Young maintained a slim lead over Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell Wednesday in the fight to be the Republican candidate for U.S. House. But a winner won’t be known for at least two weeks. With all but […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Feast of Hermes, martyr, about 132
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Feast of Julian, martyr at Brioude
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Feast of Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions, Martyrs in China
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Indicted Senator Wins G.O.P. Primary
Though a win is a win, he usually gets numbers in the upper 80s or lower 90s, so this is about a 30 point drop. August 28, 2008 By WILLIAM YARDLEY Senator Ted Stevens’s easy victory in Alaska’s Republican primary on Tuesday sets him up for two more fights this fall that are likely to […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Today in History
Martin Luther King made his ‘I have a dream’ speech at a mass Freedom March in Washington, DC (1963
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
U.S. warships due to arrive in disputed Georgian port
Shashank Bengali (08/27/08 13:19:53) POTI, Georgia — Defying Russia, an American warship that brought humanitarian aid to Georgia was expected to arrive Wednesday in this nervous Black Sea port that’s being watched over by Russian soldiers, Georgian officials said. The move would put U.S. military assets within close range of Russian forces for the first […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Arctic ice drops to 2nd-lowest level on record
By SETH BORENSTEIN and DAN JOLING The Associated Press (08/27/08 13:02:20) WASHINGTON - More ominous signs today have scientists saying that a global warming “tipping point” in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. The National Snow […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Anchorage eyes geothermal potential
PARTNER: Company with ties to Iceland will fund study of sites around Inlet, Anchorage. By ERIC LIDJI Petroleum News (08/27/08 01:03:06) The Municipality of Anchorage and a company with ties to Iceland have partnered to study whether geothermal energy could be used to help power the largest city in Alaska. Through a memorandum of understanding […]