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Ned Rozell
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His goal was to provide jobs for American writers who found themselves unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929.
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Since the late 1970s, the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell ned.rozell@alaska.edu is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.