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A wedding versus a college football game

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:00:28 +0000

One reader writes in about her fiance’s brother, who is also the best man, is missing their wedding to play in a college football game and asks how to handle this situation.
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Poles hope deadly knights will now bring some good

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:40:56 +0000

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Associated Press Writer

KWIDZYN, Poland (AP) – They were medieval warriors who spread Catholicism by the sword and seized Polish lands with great cruelty.
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Doctors: Transplant advance in windpipe cancer

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:00:25 +0000

By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press Writer

ROME (AP) – Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ biologically close to the original, they said Friday.
The 31-year-old Czech and 19-year-old British patients are in good condition and have been released from the hospital in Florence just weeks after the surgery.
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At Intiman, a potent rendering of a hardscrabble world

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:29 +0000

Intiman’s new artistic director, Kate Whoriskey, restages the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Ruined’
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Amazon CEO hopes new Kindles stoke sales

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:22 +0000

By RACHEL METZ
AP Technology Writer

SEATTLE (AP) – Jeff Bezos isnt just confident youll want a Kindle e-book reader.
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A Wake for My Youth (with Actors)

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

What It’s Like Watching Hollywood People Make a Movie About Your Life

by Grant Cogswell

To spend time on the set of a Hollywood movie in which your younger self is one of the central characters is the ultimate ego trip. It makes it easier to forget that a year and a half ago I was unemployed, essentially homeless, and pushing the last of my salable possessions in a shopping cart four miles across the flats of the San Fernando Valley in order to sell them for exactly seven dollars. That was shortly before I…

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Seattle’s botanical gap

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:00:26 +0000

Why is this city so behind others in downtown green spaces and gardens?
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Who’s Behind Tim Eyman’s Big New Tax Initiative?

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:00:25 +0000

Tim Eyman’s New Backer: A Little Company Called BP

by Cienna Madrid

E very year when the rainy season hits, Seattle finds itself in deep shit. Sewage and storm water gush up and overflow from the drainage pipes that are designed to accommodate them but can’t. It’s not just shit—the storm water also has oil and other pollutants that wash from streets all over the city. The pipes that can’t accommodate them are built to overflow into Lake Washington, Lake Union, Puget Sound, or the Duwamish River. (The city has a special…

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Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:04:05 +0000

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
Associated Press Writer

ROME (AP) – Art officials on Tuesday unveiled the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master.
The "Martyrdom of St.
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Monday chamber music features Gerard Schwarz premiere

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:17 +0000

The setting for Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival is new this year, and, for this night, there’s a new work by Seattle Symphony’s music director.
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