Gone to the dogs? Dogfight over Alaska's Iditarod.(News Debate)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: March 3, 2006 | Copyright information

Poised at the starting gate, the dogs at the 34th annual Iditarod will be ready to run. Ahead of the 16-dog sled-pulling teams lies a journey of more than 1,150 miles through Alaska's interior from Anchorage to Nome. The dogs and their drivers (called mushers) will cross frozen rivers and desolate tundra, thunder through dense forests, and zoom along windswept shorelines.

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