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The Week in Review
ending March 31
Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos
Zapatista leader Marcos.
Back in Chiapas.
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Missed our stories? All the headlines for the week can be found here.

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)

more stories
There's still more to read in the recap of the top stories.


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