The launch of the DeltaIVrocketcarryingthesatellitehad beenscheduled forFriday, butwas scrubbedatthe lastminutedue to weatherconditions at Cape CanaveralAir ForceStationin Florida.
So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satelliteweather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and AirForce bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.