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STATE The Associated Press In 2006, Alaska desperately needed cash to complete a museum featuring a mummified bison and other natural wonders of the frozen north. So the state dipped into its share of the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement.

Activists: Tobacco settlement being wasted

 <B>Creative spending?</B> Alaska dipped into its share of tobacco settlement money to complete its University of Alaska Museum of the North, pictured, in Fairbanks.
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Creative spending? Alaska dipped into its share of tobacco settlement money to complete its University of Alaska Museum of the North, pictured, in Fairbanks.
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