By Kahrin Deines/Medill – Smith Island, MD Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place. Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor. Between breaths and pauses to call [...]
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What happens in Alaska, won’t stay in Alaska
August 5, 2008 – 2:55 pm
By Angela Nitzke/Medill Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago. Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer [...]
