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    April 12, 2012

    Your Neighborhood Might Be Making Your Kid a Fat Ass

    It's been apparent for a while now that America's children are becoming alarmingly rotund. Obesity rates have skyrocketed, tripling among children in the last 30 years, with the increase assumed by most to be powered by Chicken McNuggets and Xbox. A recent study by the Seattle Children's Research In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    PETA Gets its Fishing Facts Wrong

    ​Animal rights activists today planned to take to Seattle's seafood shack row to protest fishing, but their rationale may not hold water. As reported this morning by the Seattle Times, a dozen activists affiliated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently announced they'd spen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Shellfish Struggling to Thrive in Carbonated Seawater

    ​Prospects for the endangered northern abalone, the gourmet snail that was a core food for indigenous people along the Pacific coast, are direr than shellfish vendors feared. "The near future is not going to be pretty for abalone," says University of British Columbia associate professor Chris ... More >>

  • News

    April 20, 2011

    Greentenders

    In honor of Earth Day, here are seven classic cases of ecohypocrisy.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Evergreen State College Sustainable Energy Project Kaput After Clash of Greener-Than-Thou Crusaders

    Image source​Like many forward-thinking academic institutions, the Evergreen State College has set a goal to become completely carbon neutral. In order to do that, however, the school will have to ditch its primary source of heat and electricity: a natural gas boiler that produces about 4,500 ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2008

    My Brother Got Burned

    Tiffany Burns’ SIFF-screened documentary aims to clear brother Sebastian’s name, and stick it to the cops in the process.

  • News

    May 7, 2008

    Not Every Deserter Gets the Watada Treatment

    Some are just told to go home.

  • News

    August 8, 2007

    Northwest Cougars Hunt—and Are Hunted by—Younger Men

    Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

  • Arts

    October 25, 2006

    Politics and Humor

    Barack Obama, Winston Churchill's grandson, and Amy Sedaris round out this week.

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    We Aren't Making This Up

    News events of note for the week of Jan. 25-31.

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Early Boeing's China Roots

    News events of note for the week of Jan. 25-31.

  • Arts

    February 2, 2005

    Feb. 2-8, 2005

    News events of note for the week of Jan. 25-31.

  • Arts

    November 10, 2004

    Northwest Annual

    News events of note for the week of Jan. 25-31.

  • News

    September 8, 2004

    Voting Is a Patriot Act

    News events of note for the week of Jan. 25-31.

  • Film

    June 16, 2004

    Bad Company

    Corporations are 'persons' under the law; a new book and film ask, What kind of people?

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    Birth Rights and Wrongs

    There's no stronger advocate for natural childbirth than uncompromising midwife Debra O'Conner. But a tragic pregnancy and a state investigation of her practice reveal a clash of values: At what point should midwifery yield to medical intervention?

  • Arts

    October 22, 2003

    Talent Required

    Two young, unknown Seattle writers pop up in the Eggers pantheon.

  • Arts

    February 10, 1999

    Brushes with the border

    Seeing into the minds and hearts of Canadian artists.

  • News

    September 30, 1998

    Salmon:

    Dire prophecy fulfilled

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Killer Salmon

    Farm-raised Atlantic salmon are spreading disease and genetic weakness throughout Puget Sound and threatening to destroy native salmon in the process.

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Hope for herpes—again

    After a major disappointment, UW researchers are again on the trail of a new vaccine.

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