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| 1 | Not knowing what's ahead, we look to futurists to help figure it out | Home and Garden |
| Slowly, we began to push the future a little farther out, and technology helped even more. Weather forecasters in the Northwest, for example, augmented their "wind from the south = rain; wind from the north = no rain" formula with more sophisticated tracking. | ||
| 9/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | "The Love Israel Family:" a new history of Seattle's Love Israel commune | Arts |
| When an author writes a book with the "cooperation" of its subjects, it's fair game for a skeptical approach by a reporter-reviewer, particularly this one, whose articles are cited in the book's footnotes. Cooperation brings access and information, but it can also breed sympathy and indebtedness. | ||
| 9/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Loving machines and the dreams they inspire, airplane enthusiasts pursue their passion | Home and Garden |
| BOB DEMPSTER was up to his elbows in varnish inside a busy Renton Airport hangar, surrounded by ancient engine parts and sketchy, decades-old drawings, when we began our semantic discussion. | ||
| 8/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Best-laid plans for retirement undone, legions are remaking their golden years | Home and Garden |
| So it is with some reluctance and shame that many boomers-and-beyond are admitting their retirement nest eggs have been scrambled, beaten to a weightless froth by an economy spun out of control. | ||
| 6/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | With economics and values changing, building salvage rises | Home and Garden |
| Otherwise, he'd come away with a handful of splinters, because he can't refrain from caressing the old wood, feeling the grain, searching for what he calls "the treasure" hidden inside. | ||
| 5/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Dr. Sigvard Hansen challenged assumptions and helped turn around trauma care | Home and Garden |
| SIXTY-PLUS YEARS ago, alone on a broken-down tractor somewhere in the middle of 300 acres of farmland in the Spokane Valley, 10-year-old Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr., figured out what was wrong, and fixed it. | ||
| 3/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | The color green carries mixed meanings | Home and Garden |
| Green starts out mixed — some blue, some yellow. So maybe it's only natural that it invokes such mixed feelings. Its metaphors are mixed, too: Greenbacks and the green light lead to greener pastures. But: Being green with envy, or a greenhorn, or queasy green, can never be good. | ||
| 3/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | The Pacific Northwest's elusive mountain beaver | Home and Garden |
| AT FIRST, MOST people who hear about the mountain beaver think it's a myth or a joke, like the jackalope or the sea monkey, animals clearly not found in nature. In fact, the mountain beaver is very much found in nature — but only on the rainy Pacific Coast. | ||
| 2/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Yaktrax | In treacherous times, these trusty treads offer a firm foothold | Home and Garden |
| Car, previously good, became bad on steep, icy hills. Down there, at the bottom, even brave, burly beasts with 4-wheel-drive and chains lay bruised and broken. Feet, previously good, also became bad on steep, icy sidewalks. | ||
| 2/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Northwest primary care medicine: Curing what ails us | Home and Garden |
| ABOUT 25 MINUTES into his appointment with Dr. Harry Shriver at Group Health's Factoria clinic, Grover Williams, who has diabetes, casually mentions the tingling in his feet — an ominous symptom. | ||
| 1/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Facing more Northwest urban density, we're figuring out what space we need | Home and Garden |
| One of my favorite cartoons shows a friendly, fuzzy, big-nosed wolf — not the sort that would scare you, much less gnaw your leg off — sitting on a snow-covered hill, stars dotting the icy night sky. You instantly relate to this "Lone Wolf," who is musing to himself: "Proud." | ||
| 12/14/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Voting early? Expect long lines in King County | Politics |
| Voters thronged to King County election headquarters in Renton to vote early Saturday after seeing television reports of long lines elsewhere in the country. | ||
| 11/2/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Doctors divided on assisted suicide | Politics |
| Initiative 1000, which would allow doctors to write lethal-dose prescriptions for terminally ill, competent adult Washington residents, appears to be about patients. | ||
| 9/22/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Initiative 1000 would let patients get help ending their lives | Politics |
| One woman shudders and chokes back tears as she recounts the agony of her husband's slow death. Another recalls with wonder and affection the many precious months she and her husband shared before he finally succumbed. | ||
| 9/21/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | What's behind the whopping price tags on the newest generation of drugs | Health and Family |
| BOTHELL — They are the sturdy, docile workhorses of the biotech revolution: Chinese hamster ovary cells, microscopic living factories that churn out proteins that eventually become drugs such as Enbrel, Amgen's blockbuster treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. | ||
| 8/18/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | The newest generation of drugs: Who can afford them? | Health and Family |
| A new-generation medication, Copaxone, was really working for her. After two decades of being in and out of hospitals, Garcia was taking steps to work again. Her wallet, though, was in severe distress. Under her Medicare prescription plan, Garcia's share of the expensive drug was $330 per month. | ||
| 8/17/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Do safety-net hospitals put money over mission? | Local News |
| For safety-net hospitals, maintaining a balance between serving the poor and staying financially viable has always been tough, say the authors of a national study, "but it is becoming even more so in a marketplace that is becoming more competitive and profit-driven." | ||
| 8/12/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Best bet for seeing ACLU marijuana video featuring Steves? Comcast | Local News |
| Of the three local network stations, only one agreed to run the show, produced by the American Civil Liberties Union and hosted by travel writer Rick Steves. KOMO-TV turned down the ACLU this week; KIRO-TV never got back to the group at all. | ||
| 8/8/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Health reminder | Time to update students' vaccines | Local News |
| State public-health officials are reminding parents that several immunizations are required before children can attend school or child care. Requirements for new vaccines or boosters change year by year to phase in protection for all students. | ||
| 8/6/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | EPA sun-safety program targets skeptical Washingtonians | Local News |
| Tell Washingtonians they're at risk of skin cancer, or warn that they should protect themselves from the sun's rays in the land of rain and clouds, and they're likely to fling moss at you. "If we don't protect ourselves as well as people in, say, L.A. | ||
| 7/30/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||