Alaskans begin burying winter's dead as spring softens ground

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- As the spring thaw softens ground that has been frozen hard as granite by the long Alaska winter, cemeteries start burying people who died during the past seven months.

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