Photo archive for April 8, 2008
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Lee-Walker
They may be in their fifties but, from left, Roger Sayre, Bob Baker, Roselynn Ressa Smith and Dave Edic are still strong athletes. The four are shown here outside Edic's house Thursday, April 3, 2008.
Kathryn Pyne with the Alaska State Division of Forestry works with a group of Badger Road Elementary School third graders during the Alaska Railroad Emergency Response Whistle Stop Tour Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at the Fairbanks Train Depot. The "rolling classroom" is making 10 stops in two weeks along the state railway system, and focuses on teaching track and train safety. The train is open to the public and will continue through Wednesday,April 9, before moving on to Anchorage.
Woodriver Elementary School second-graders make their way through a passenger car during the Alaska Railroad Emergency Response Whistle Stop Tour Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at the Fairbanks Train Depot. The "rolling classroom" is making 10 stops in two weeks along the state railway system, and focuses on teaching track and train safety. The train is open to the public and will continue through Wednesday, April 9, 2008, before moving on to Anchorage.
Safety signs are seen throughout the passenger cars as a group of Badger Road Elementary School third graders sit in the upper level of a dome car during the Alaska Railroad Emergency Response Whistle Stop Tour Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at the Fairbanks Train Depot. The "rolling classroom" is making 10 stops in two weeks along the state railway system, and focuses on teaching track and train safety. The train is open to the public and will continue through Wednesday, April 9, 2008, before moving on to Anchorage.
Hunter Elementary School first-graders board a passenger car during the Alaska Railroad Emergency Response Whistle Stop Tour Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at the Fairbanks Train Depot. The "rolling classroom" is making 10 stops in two weeks along the state railway system, and focuses on teaching track and train safety. The train is open to the public and will continue through Wednesday, April 9, 2008, before moving on to Anchorage.
A Lockheed P-3B is parked outside of Everts Air Alaska's hanger at the Fairbanks International Airport. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's aircraft along with others and other government agencies are in town as part of NASA’s Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites. The program will use aircraft and satellites to take samples of pollution particles and gases in order to study arctic haze. Arctic haze is caused by pollution and found in the atmosphere at high altitudes in the Arctic. They will be basing their research out of Fairbanks through April 20.
In this picture provided by NOAA, a North Pacific right whale swims in the Bering Sea in Alaska in the summer 2004. The Bush administration took a step Tuesday, April 8, 2008 toward allowing oil and gas leasing in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world's most endangered whale. There are fewer than 100 of the whales, perhaps fewer than 50.
Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions during a news conference on the Alaska gas line, in Juneau on Tuesday April 8, 2008. The executive branch held a press conference to respond to the BP and ConocoPhillips press release announcing their desire to build a gas pipeline outside of the state's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.
Members of the House and Senate Majority respond to the BP and ConocoPhillips announcement to build a gas pipeline during a news conference, in Juneau on Tuesday April 8, 2008. Seated at center from left Senate President Lyda Green, R-Wasilla, House Majority Leader Ralph Samuels, R-Anchorage, Sen. Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez, Rep. John Coghill, R-North Pole.
Doug Suttles, president of BP Alaska, right, next to Jim Bowles, president of ConocoPhillips answers questions during a news conference in Anchorage on Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The companies announced plans to jointly develop a multibillion-dollar pipeline to move North Slope natural gas to U.S. markets. Britain's BP PLC and ConocoPhillips, based in Houston, Texas, said they plan to spend $600 million in the first phase of the project over the next three years.
Fairbanks Education Association President Steve Laroe, left, and Lathrop High School Physical Education teacher Jeff Hebard use photo software on Hebards new Apple MacBook to make distorted photos Monday afternoon, April 7, 2008. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District spent $1.3 million to provide the district’s 971 educators with new laptops and additional classroom technology.
Lathrop High School educators Shiloh Parkerson-Gray, left, English Language Learning, and Kara Candelaria, Spanish, joke together as they tried out their new Apple MacBooks Monday afternoon, April 7, 2008. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District spent $1.3 million to provide the district’s 971 educators with new laptops and additional classroom technology.
Veterinarian Kobi Johnson tends to a woozy Zorro at Tacoma,Wash., Veterinary Imaging Center on Monday, March 31, 2007. "His best chances were 50-50 until we got the MRI," says Johnson, who was in Alaska as champion musher Lance Mackey's private vet during the 408-mile All Alaska Sweepstakes dog-sled race. The 9-year-old faces weeks of recovery from four broken ribs and severe bruising suffered when he was hit Friday by a snowmobile near Nome, at the end of the race.
Cigarettes are shown in an ash tray in this 2006 file photo. Scientists say they have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to get hooked on tobacco, causing them to smoke more cigarettes, making it harder to quit, and leading more often to deadly lung cancer.
Thomas Hovenden
Snowmachine driver Robert Mason and his teammate Dennis Keeling both catch air while competing in the men's ski division during the 2007 Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic race Friday afternoon, April 13, 2007 in the HooDoo Mountains outside of Summit Lake, Alaska. Skiers and snowboarders descend down a mountain face and through a ravine before meeting up with their teammate riding a snowmachine, who hands them a tow rope and pulls them up the next peak, where they then slingshot down the next ravine and to the finish line.
Tim Clark
Mark Sehnert
Alaska Linck