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Report highlights smoking among women
American Indian and Alaska Native women are the heaviest
smokers among American women, reported
Surgeon General David Satcher this week.
But no one seems to know exactly why just yet. Meanwhile,
heart disease, lung cancer, and other diseases associated
with smoking are killing more and more women in Indian Country.
Get the Story: Report:
Native women heaviest smokers (3/28) Smoking in Indian Country
(3/28)
What's good for the Gwich'in...
Oil and gas development in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska and public lands
throughout the country were once again the big
focuses of the Bush administration and Republican
supporters this week.
If you believe Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(R-Colo.), the only American Indian in the Senate,
development might just be good for Alaska Natives.
Some support it and stand to gain economically;
others don't because they fear damage to their
way of life.
And if you believe President Bush, there's got to be
oil and gas somewhere to be extracted It might be in your
backyard, it might be in a national monument,
it might be in Canada. Details at 11.
Get the Story: Pueblo monument
targeted for oil (3/27) Pro-drilling
groups would get boost (3/27) What's Good for
the Caribou is Good for the Gwich'in (3/27) Norton headed to
Arctic (3/28) Wash. monument
targeted for gas (3/29) Norton targets
monuments for changes (3/29) Visiting the
Tent Rocks National Monument (3/29) Bush pushes
hemispheric development (3/30)
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