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Living in Alaska

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Alaska Tourism web site

Once proud of living their own lives in a beautiful but intimidating land, many residents are now earning a living helping short-term visitors experience a safely shrink-wrapped facsimile of the real thing. As anyone in Cancun, Florence or Bangkok could tell them, that is the price you pay for the piles of cash that tourism can generate. Economist 1999, 63