NATION IN BRIEF : ALASKA : 7 Eagle Spill Victims Returning to Wild

More than 14 months after the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill, seven bald eagle victims of the spill are returning to the wild, including “Miracle,” who was delivered in a coma one year ago and nursed back to health. Wildlife workers took the birds from their enclosures at the Ft. Richardson Army post north of Anchorage, stuffed them into large portable dog kennels and flew them to Cordova for today’s freedom flight from an unoiled Prince William Sound beach. Three other spill victims at the makeshift eagle rehabilitation center--one blind and two unable to fly--can never be released.