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Bear necessities
The scarce, elusive Cascade grizzlies go to court for a little respect—and room.
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Finback Fini
IT’S BECOMING a familiar spectacle around here: A ship steams into port with a once-magnificent fin whale wrapped…
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A Glass of Clouds and Dreams
Sake is the soccer of beveragesardently appreciated everywhere but America, yet always on the verge of making it…
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Life in the HOT lane
Before killing off or cutting back HOV lanes, let's consider another alternative: selling congestion-free driving.
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Year of the frat brat
Everyone wants to put a tag on 1999, but what can you say about a year in which…
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Dire strait
Not even Al Gore can get shippers to accept tug protection against oil spills. Here come the storms—and…
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The first casualty
CALL IT A RETURN to the New Normalcy. America’s might roared off to pound Kandahar, a place 99…
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More strange boatfellows
Initiative 696, the “Ban All Nets” measure on next week’s state ballot, isn’t happening in a vacuum and…
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Hatching trouble
Hatcheries scientists want to restock vanishing bottomfish. Some of their colleagues fear a salmon-style disaster.