Photo archive for April 30, 2008
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Stocking feet surround Singapore as seventh and eighth grade students from Star of the North Charter School tour Asia by way of a National Geographic Society map laid out in the Great Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tuesday morning, April 29, 2008. The 30-foot by 40-foot vinyl map was brought to Fairbanks through the University of Alaska Geography Program at the Fairbanks campus, which is also home of the National Geographic Society's Alaska Geographic Alliance, a national education network with representation in each state. Students from several local schools visited the map, which will travel to other locations throughout the state as part of National Geographic's yearly Geography Action Initiative. Last year's map was Africa, with next year's map being North America.
Plastic cups, each representing 1 percent of the world's 6.6 billion people, are placed in their appropriate locations as seventh- and eighth-grade students from Star of the North Charter School tour Asia by way of a National Geographic Society map laid out in the Great Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Tuesday morning, April 29, 2008. Asia makes up 60-percent of the world's population. The 30-foot by 40-foot vinyl map was brought to Fairbanks through the University of Alaska Geography Program at the Fairbanks campus, which is also home of the National Geographic Society's Alaska Geographic Alliance, a national education network with representation in each state. Students from several local schools visited the map, which will travel to other locations throughout the state as part of National Geographic's yearly Geography Action Initiative. Last year's map was Africa, with next year's map being North America.
Seventh and eighth grade students from Star of the North Charter School tour Asia by way of a National Geographic Society map laid out in the Great Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Tuesday morning, April 29, 2008. The 30-foot by 40-foot vinyl map was brought to Fairbanks through the University of Alaska Geography Program at the Fairbanks campus, which is also home of the National Geographic Society's Alaska Geographic Alliance, a national education network with representation in each state. Students from several local schools visited the map, which will travel to other locations throughout the state as part of National Geographic's yearly Geography Action Initiative. Last year's map was Africa, with next year's map being North America.
Passers-by watch from the Centennial Foot Bridge as ice jams up against the Cushman Street Bridge on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, as the Chena River breaks up. Scattered showers on Wednesday and highs in the 40s and 50s through the rest of the week will continue to clear the area's rivers of ice.
Mary Johnson is the new Interim director of Hospice of the Tanana Valley as she poses in front of the new facility Tuesday morning, April 29, 2008.
Students from Hunter Elementary School ride along the bike path downtown Tuesday, April 29, 2008, as part of their after-school program. The bike ride was proposed to offer healthy exercise for the students and to promote bicycle safety as summer approaches.
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