Fairbanks: Cold weather forced organizers to cancel sled dog race

This is, after all, Alaska, and this winter brought with it a particularly nasty cold snap--temperatures never rose above 20 below for 16 straight days from Dec. 27 to Jan. 11, and at times dipped to minus 50.
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The race was initially set to be the second in a five-race series, but later bumped up to the first, chronologically, after cold weather forced organizers to cancel the first race outright.

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Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service.