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	<title>The Ultima Thule &#187; Shannon Huffman Polson</title>
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	<description>Journeys in America's Northernmost Lands: a web anthology of the Alaskan Arctic</description>
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		<title>A scientist at work in Arctic Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Huffman Polson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy the ongoing posts by Steve Zack as he recounts his journeys in the Arctic along the Utokok River.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Enjoy the <a title="Steve Zack in the Arctic" href="http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/photos-and-reflections-from-arctic-alaska/" target="_blank">ongoing posts by Steve Zack</a> as he recounts his journeys in the Arctic along the Utokok River.</p>
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		<title>Leaving the land of light</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Huffman Polson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the haze from faraway forest fires had cleared, we would often sit speechless watching the low light from the midnight Arctic sun paint the gentle hills and mountains around us. The light is perhaps one of the biggest gifts of the Arctic, one of the spectacles of this part of the world less noted [...]]]></description>
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