FEATURES Back in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail After four years' absence from Iraq, our independent reporter has gone back, and provides dispatches on the security situation there, the gravedigging perspective, and the situation in the lives of the friends he made from his earlier trips.
Dr. Geyges' Guide for the Perplexed Returns
advice from Dr. Geyges for the theologically challenged The Tanana Valley can once again read the sage's advice for the philosophy-lorn. This month, the good doctor answers a question from Deeply Puzzled Doris on conflicting tales of creation in Genesis.
Health Insurance for the Uninsurable
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis About 60,000 Alaskans under age sixty-five cannot buy comprehensive health insurance from the for-profit insurance industry—for any price. They are the uninsurable, because Alaska allows insurance companies to refuse to insure people who are likely to have high medical expenses. So where does that leave these people who need health care the most?
Machu Picchu: a revised history of discovery
Part Three: Id Est: Who Was Buried in Grant's Tomb?, by Paolo Greer Virtually no explorers discover much on their own. There weretwenty-four families who lived on Berns' property near Machu Picchu, and a few of them served as his guides. They led him to long-abandoned settlements of metal workers.
The Missionary Position on Family Values
by Neal Matson Here in the United States, the very words "family values" have been co-opted by right-wing medievalists to mean things that have little to do with family. In Alaska and the US, we often don't maintain strong family ties, but in the Phillipines I gained a gut-level understanding of the value of family that stays with me.
TV is Here!
The Long View, by Ross Coen The Northern Commercial Company displayed the very first sets to arrive in Fairbanks at the Tanana Valley Fair in 1953. The TV was here, but the broadcast wasn't.
A Watershed in Education
by D. Helfferich A new charter school is forming that will use place-based education to structure its curriculum. Calypso Farm is working with the school's founders to start a schoolyard garden from the outset.
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