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1 'Half the Sky': a wholehearted story of courage among women Arts
Fans of co-author Nicholas Kristof's New York Times' op-ed columns will recognize Mukhtar Mai, an impoverished Pakistani girl raped by a rival clan. She confronted culture and courts, won compensation and built schools, a women's shelter and a free legal clinic.
9/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 In 'Shanghai Girls,' a fabulous world turned upside down Arts
May and Pearl head to fashionable Nanking Road, vaguely noticing the thousands of poor peasants who have fled the Japanese invasion of the countryside. "May and I stroll ... avoiding the refugees and eyeing Shanghainese and Shanghailanders to see what they're wearing.
6/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 "Cutting for Stone": Verghese's epic of Ethiopia Arts
Like many tales worthy of "Once-upon-a-time" status, this one starts with a mother's death. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a beautiful young Carmelite nun and scrub nurse from India, fatally hemorrhages giving birth to twin sons in the humble Ethiopian mission hospital where she works.
2/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Author survived sex trade, lives to rescue others Arts
She is a child. No name, no parents, no home. She forages for wild fruits and sleeps in a hammock under the moon, whispering to trees her sorrow over not having a mother. "When things got unbearable, I confessed my secrets to the waterfalls, because the water couldn't reverse its flow and betray me.
9/16/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 The Power of the Pool: Issues of class, culture and political priorities swirl Home and Garden
Growing up in Normandy Park in the mid-'70s, Jeff Wiltse spent summers at the pool. All day. Every day. And it wasn't just about swimming. There was Wiffle ball, showing off for pretty girls, trading baseball cards on the pool deck.
6/15/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 She knows that to say it with flowers, you have to listen first Home and Garden
Mother's Day, checkout line, QFC floral department, Harvard Market, Capitol Hill. Guy clutches a potted plant. For his girlfriend's mother. About to meet her for the first time. Hmmm. How 'bout cut flowers instead, floral manager Janet Supplee suggests. Pot with dirt doesn't seem classy enough.
5/11/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Racing outriggers take a cultural revival along for the ride Home and Garden
Lake Washington's stony, gray shore is 2,700 miles from the warm, sandy beaches of Hawaii, but it feels a lot farther in winter, on a gloomy afternoon of unrelenting rain. No blue skies or palm trees, here. No gentle trade winds. No sunshine sparkling on ocean swells.
5/4/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Cracking the code to 'the perfect plant' opens a path to saving the planet Home and Garden
If Jackie Heinricher's Chilean feather bamboo hadn't flowered in her Skagit County garden 10 years ago, we might, this very moment, be snacking on the latest, greatest gourmet craze: crunchy chips made from bamboo shoots. But flower it did, a once-in-a-century phenomenon.
4/20/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 David Sylvester | Has dog, will travel the globe in search of a new life path Home and Garden
At 26, David Sylvester has quit his job as a vaccine scientist at PATH (the global health nonprofit) to cycle the continental United States with dog Chiva, literally, in tow.
4/13/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Looking to nature, doula Penny Simkin practices the art of delivery Home and Garden
It's graced by maternity tchotchkes collected from around the world, piled with books and scientific journal articles about birth (many penned by her), thumbtacked with whimsical reunion snapshots of babies leaning precariously against each other on the couch.
3/23/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Overwhelmingly white, the green movement is reaching for the rainbow Home and Garden
Van Jones strides the stage at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, a charismatic lawyer who grew up in rural Tennessee, graduated from Yale Law, and founded the Ella Baker Center for jobs and justice in Oakland.
3/9/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Jilly Eddy | Say 'read my lips' and she'll make it personal Home and Garden
Pucker up! Lipsology is the latest psychic science, a kiss-and-tell favorite at Seattle-area parties. West Seattle's Jilly Eddy developed and trademarked the art of analyzing people's lip prints to reveal personality, energy, potential.
2/10/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 The Indoor Sun Shoppe | Shines light on our most naked of needs Home and Garden
On winter solstice in Seattle, daylight lasts a mere 8 hours, 25 minutes and 14 seconds. No wonder 1 in 10 Seattleites suffers from full-blown Seasonal Affective Disorder (winter depression, carb craving, hibernation instinct) while another 10 to 20 percent wallow in winter blues.
12/23/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 On The Edge Of Opportunity Home and Garden
Shoreline? Dowdy Shoreline? That stretch of car dealerships, casinos and strip malls lining Aurora Avenue just north of Seattle? That sprawl of cul-de-sacs and ramblers prone to power outages and flooding? The place where your parents' friends used to live? Look again.
12/9/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Mahjong / With clicketing tiles and time to talk, the play's the thing Home and Garden
Mahjong, anyone? Friday mornings, 9 to noon, look for the women wearing mahjong jewelry while clickety-clicking the smooth tiles on the courtyard tables near the shoe-repair place in Bellevue's Crossroads Mall. If you don't know how to play, they'll teach you.
10/14/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 What you should know about the HPV vaccine Home and Garden
A: It's at least as safe as other routine vaccines, Koutsky says. More than 7 million doses have been distributed so far, and serious adverse events are lower for this vaccine than for other vaccines. Q: How long will it take to see a decrease in cervical cancer?
9/23/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 From Virus To Vaccine Home and Garden
"It didn't seem to be a linear pathway to how I got here," laughs UW epidemiology professor Laura Koutsky. She's credited with developing the world's first human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine along with Dr. Kathrin Jansen, a yeast expert then at Merck Research Laboratories.
9/23/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 RenĂ© Bibaud | Defying age and gravity, she jumps right in Home and Garden
When five-time world champion René Bibaud fills out her taxes, she lists her occupation as "Professional Rope Jumper." Bibaud performs acrobatic jump-rope routines for Cirque du Soleil, in competitions and as a motivational speaker in schools.
9/9/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 George Hageman | The peaceful podcaster rides to fame on military might Home and Garden
"I can see how people would think I'm one big oxymoron," he says, adding that no matter how cool he thinks things like weapons and battles are, it doesn't mean he supports them. "Probably 75 percent of my listeners are Republicans," he notes, "and a lot of them are military veterans.
8/19/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Terrible Truths Home and Garden
"The more experience I have," the 58-year-old says, "the less equipment I need." In a perfect world, Semeniuk wouldn't lug any gear at all. "It's really about the relationship with the people. My ideal photograph would be one that I can keep in my head." He always shoots on manual.
8/12/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results