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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American
Writer
About
First
Life
Made
People
You
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People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
People
Girl
Big
Rich
Assume
Herself
About
Case
Football
Football Player
Cheering
Mostly
Trying
Player
LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Airport
Parallel
Thousands
Atlanta
Counterparts
Over
Like
Spread
Denver
Endless
Modern
Tiny
Acres
Compared
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Rights
World
Engineer
Pour
Ways
Drink
He
Glass
Himself
His
Bragging
Anywhere
Landfill
A person can't just drive around the North Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a burger joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no churches.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Drive
Burger
Churches
Visit
Cities
Slope
Joint
Joints
Houses
Around
North
Person
Just
Stop
For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Natural
World
Year
Field
State
Later
Bay
Poking
Year Later
Arrived
Blocks
Discovered
Began
North
North America
America
Native
Oil
Holes
Fuel
Centuries
Cut
Use
Explorers
Largest
People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
People
Ocean
Range
Slope
Thousands
Brooks
Thousands Of Years
Arctic
Unchanging
Vast
Idaho
Abundant
Known
Years
Mountain
Than
North
Endless
Oil
Bigger
Flat
Landscape
Alaska
The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Animal
Word
Plentiful
Slope
Bearded
Named
Island
North
Shores
Meaning
Seal
Alaska
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