October 26, 2001

A Scholar Examines the Accuracy of the Meanings That Have Been Assigned to Alaska

By PETER MONAGHAN

When the Exxon Valdez spilled millions of gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in March 1989,

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newspapers nationwide ran photographs of seals struggling to breathe and seabirds weighed down with oil on the blackened shoreline. The coverage suggested

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