Once a complex of smokestacks and aircraft at Prudhoe Bay

It is a slow process over the rough ice: 2 1 / 2 hours from the coast, with a lookout point to vote in the polar bear, that the cold as the greatest threat to human life in this barren landscape rivals. "Is out of the ice cap, where they live, and they see humans as food," said a police official, said North Slope Borough and Young Würth.

Once a complex of smokestacks and aircraft at Prudhoe Bay, it is the white ice and gray skies in all directions - and in the distance, the AS09D34 cranes and bulldozers and piles of North Star.

At the present time, well-appointed home, you probably have a wireless phone, fax and answering machine. The 90 entrepreneurs to stay in the business a personal communications system in your briefcase, in addition to cell phones and pagers.

If you are looking for ideas for Christmas presents in this context, a number of electronic communication devices are in this year. Many are not particularly new ideas, but improvements over previous models or designs that may be familiar. The manufacturers will have the advantage of microelectronics better and smaller, and produced some good opportunities. Here are some ideas you might consider.

Snowfall can delay the traditional Memorial Day (May 31) the opening of Chinook Pass for two weeks. State Highway 410, which connects the Yakima County, King and Pierce counties, is buried not less than 60 inches of snow in some places, "said Leonard Pittman, a regional administrator with the Department of Transportation. Next week, teams begin the 030-02-0012-A00 battery road to clear snow completed the course in the vicinity of the boundary of Mount Rainier National Park last year was on 20 May.

Apple has a hit with the iBook, sold more than 250,000 since its introduction last year. The laptop does not go into corporate America, but probably because the executive suites were not created for cases of caramel color.

Now, Apple has responded to platinum-colored iBook Special Edition, $ 1,799. In addition to the color of calm, the premium of $ 200 to buy only a 366-megahertz G3 processor, a painful blow insignificant megahertz processing power of the regular iBook 300th

Children, you avoid embarrassing moments when the teacher begins the love note from hand to hand and read the class?

Sega of America Inc., in Redwood City, California, is a high-tech solution: IR 7000 Com-Link, a communicator of the $ 80 pocket organizer, the short messages to a beam of infrared light transmits infrared 7000s.

Texas Instruments Inc. has a new chipset, the smaller and lighter laptops chips now for announced.The manufacturer for use in laptop batteries may be available later developed this fall. It is this type of machine to do the processing faster for less money, the company said.