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THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2002

Thanks to some high-level intervention, some bowhead whale bones left over from an Inupiat hunt are on their way to England.

Don Nungasak, a whaling captain from Barrow, Alaska, agreed to clean up the jawbones to replace a detoriating set that commemorates an English whaler. But since the bowhead is an endangered species protected by treaty, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) authored a bill to allow overseas shipment.

Bush signed the bill into law and the jawbones left Alaska this morning.

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Them bones (The Anchorage Daily News 3/21)