Arctic town plans indoor ski jump hill
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A Finnish town near the Arctic circle, already covered by snow for most of the year, is planning to build the country&#39;s biggest ski jumping hill -- indoors.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Special winter sports teams specialize in getting children with disabilities onto the ice.
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Q. Our son, who is a good skier and will be 18 in November, wants to do an intensive residential ski-instructor course either in Europe, Canada or the US this winter during his gap year.
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Villagers from far-flung Eskimo communities where alcohol is banned regularly pour into this old Gold Rush town and its many bars and liquor stores &#151; not just to drink, but to get plastered.
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WASECA, Minn. - The search is on for a stolen ice house, and it's a really nice one as these things go. Authorities in Waseca County are on the lookout for the $4,000 house built for ice fishing that went missing from Clear Lake on Wednesday.
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Snow is more important than ice in protecting the delicate tundra from disturbances, a finding that holds promise for a longer oil-exploration season in Alaska's rapidly warming Arctic, state officials said on Friday.
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Dec. 19--Members of the Emmaus High School skateboarding club, and East Penn's top administrator, wish one of the five municipalities in the school district would create a public skateboard park.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say
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Anchorage, AK (Sports Network) - New Jersey Devils center Scott Gomez has signed with an East Coast Hockey League team in his hometown of Anchorage.
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In the end, the best-laid ski plans rise or fall on the whims of winter weather.
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In the ski town of Breckenridge, the holiday rush is for the slopes, not the shops. Residents can buy a Christmas tree, upscale clothing, boots or trendy cookware but will be hard-pressed to find an iPod along Main Street. Thing is, residents in the quaint Victorian-style resort about 100 miles west of Denver like it that way.
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The Bureau of Land Management could go ahead with plans to allow drilling in a sensitive area near Teshekpuk Lake on the North Slope, an agency spokeswoman said.
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Â· Wiltshire town courts country's Olympic team  Â· Leisure centre could be put at athletes' disposal
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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A Swedish company plans to harness the body heat generated by thousands of commuters scrambling to catch their trains at Stockholm's main railway station and use it for heating a nearby office building.