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Guest Turkey is not another ‘Arab spring’ chapter
It would be wrong to think of the events in Turkey as another chapter in the "Arab spring" movements, writes guest columnist Resat ...
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A choice to be single in Seattle
I don't understand why men can make the choice to avoid relationships and are called "playboys" while women do the same and face the "old maid" moniker. I know I hear it from my own family members. Enough. New game, please. Danielle Campoamor’s recent Times guest column exposed our collective fascination in Seattle with romance ["What’s wrong with ...
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Wickham Lawyer for Trayvons parents plays key role
But as aggressive as Crump has been in seeking monetary compensation for Martin's family, he is even more tireless in his efforts to make this case less about race than the quest for justice. SANFORD, FLA. - Benjamin Crump, the highest profile lawyer in the Trayvon Martin murder case, is just a spectator in the courtroom where the man who killed the unarmed 17-year-old boy is about to be ...
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Men influence abortion decisions too Column
In Florida, John Andrew Welden was charged with first-degree murder and product tampering in tricking his girlfriend into taking the chemical abortion drug Cytotec after she refused to end her pregnancy. His ex-girlfriend, Remee Lee, 26, also has filed a lawsuit against ...
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Sandwich Monday The Wendys T-Rex Burger
pulled this week, far too young , from the menu of a rogue Manitoba Wendy's that served it to two or three people a day. It is survived by the few people who ate it and survived. Said a Wendy's spokesperson: "For obvious reasons, Wendy's neither condones nor promotes the idea of anyone consuming a nine-patty hamburger in one sitting." Said us: "For obvious ...
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Editorial Fight House ploy on states animal rights
The amendment to the broad-reaching federal law, introduced by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is bad policy that would override the wishes of Californians and threaten progressive anti-cruelty laws such as the state's shark-fin ban and Proposition 2, which gives farm animals, including egg-laying chickens, more room to stretch their ...
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Vacation Horror Stories A Bat-Infested Trip To Ecuador
Listener Rachel Sumner of Ithaca, N.Y., recounts the story of her bat-infested trip to Ecuador for our series on vacation horror stories. A bat in her hotel room would keep returning no matter how many times she captured it and took it out. She had to get rabies shots and now has no sympathy for ...
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What others say Immigration reform imperiled by politics
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., flanked by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, speaks about immigration reform legislation by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that would create a path for the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship, April 18, on Capitol Hill in ...
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Can we trust Irans new president
Iran's national elections last week is a sign that the Iranian people — if not the conservative clerics who have final say on policy matters — are ready for a change. The Obama administration should seize the opportunity and attempt to reopen talks with the new president-elect in order to seriously explore whether he can move his country toward resolving the issues surrounding ...
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State pensions threaten to bleed states dry
California may be boasting a $1.2 billion budget surplus this year, but it and other states still face the growing problem of what to do about pensions for state workers, according ...
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Government compromises our trust Column
bad last week , but it looks much, much worse now. The federal government has been spying and lying. The only comfort is that, apparently, it's been largely incompetent at both: Nobody believes the lies, and the ...
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Shad run is down to a crawl
You would probably have to over the age of 50 to remember when late May and early June meant shad in Maryland. In those days, the spawning season for American shad and river herring brought young and old to the banks of Maryland tributaries to catch their share of fish once so bountiful that they were shipped by the rail car load from Crisfield to Baltimore. Shad filet and shad roe were as big ...
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Why smart Russians are leaving their country behind
The regime of Vladimir Putin has always presented successful, liberal-minded Russians with a quandary: To what extent are they willing to put up with an authoritarian government in return for making a life in their native ...
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Liberals should lead entitlement reform
If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increasingly likely, they will have handed conservatives a ...
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An Adventure For Kids And Maybe For Their Parents Too
, a kids' show on Cartoon Network. Some are surely Emmy voters. (It's won three.) Others are very possibly stoners. Still others are intellectuals. Lev Grossman falls in the last category. He wrote two best-selling ...
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The NFL To Your Purse Drop Dead
policy change in which only clear plastic bags would be allowed into stadiums -- one per person. Nothing they can't see through. The league says that the change is meant to ensure safety while speeding up security checks and preventing gate backups, which sounds good enough at the outset. In the handful of days since, this has largely been framed as an issue affecting women, who won't ...
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In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA A Little Bit With Reservations
Television personality and host Giuliana Rancic looks on as Miss Utah USA Marissa Powell answers a question from a judge during the interview portion of the 2013 Miss USA pageant on Sunday ...
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Defense cuts Start by cutting whats not needed
The Pentagon says it doesn’t need them, can’t afford to maintain them. Two congressional panels say you’re stuck with them. At a time of federal budget squeezing, the Defense Department’s effort to close installations rendered unnecessary by troop drawdowns has hit a political ...
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Former CIA worker leaks National Security Agency data
A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. (The Associated Press / Kin Cheung) Since when is columnist David Brooks a psychiatrist? He fails to justify why the government listens to and tracks Americans' phone and Internet activity ...
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Doing the enemys job Column
statement that the bill "points out the necessity of removing sequestration." True enough, but politically improbable in the current hyper-partisan environment. Sadly, the unnecessary and self-inflicted wounds of sequestration seem likely to remain with us.During my career as a military flier, we had a saying about avoiding accidents and other self-inflicted problems: "Don't ...
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Supreme Courts gene patent ruling was overdue
It seems obvious that a company shouldn’t hold a patent on something that the human body produces. Proprietary patents, after all, protect the exclusive rights to make, use or sell a creation or invention - not something that occurs in ...
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Pushing the envelope NSA-style
Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e., what's written on the outside of an envelope -- the addresses of sender and receiver.The National Security Agency's recording of U.S. phone data does basically that with the telephone. It records who is calling whom -- the outside of the envelope, as it ...
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Author criticized for high-school graduation speech
Guterson heckled for gloomy speech at Roosevelt graduation ," NWFriday, June 14]. I was there for my son's graduation. Unfortunately, he ran headlong into some parents' ironbound expectations that a graduation speaker must be uplifting. I came with no such preconceptions. When I found out that he was the keynote speaker, I was keen on hearing what he had to say. The ceremony was ...
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Police deny rape claim
Women sues after police didn't buy rape claim ," page one, June 11]. This is the kind of story that keeps people who are raped from reporting it to the police. It's one thing that they didn't believe it to begin with, but then to charge her for false reporting and fine her $500 -- what the hell? She was also forced into counseling and had to lie about the rape or be ...
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Punchlines Man of steel or buns of steel
"Man of Steel," the latest Superman flick, opened at the box office this weekend with record numbers, grossing $125 million domestically. And on Friday, the late-night comedians were full of anticipation and excitement about opening weekend. One of them had to take a moment to comfort Dean Cain after the one-time Superman actor learned he wasn't taking the lead role. Another ...
Maine State Feaure
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Historical schooner Bowdoin is a state asset
The Bowdoin recently undertook a short tour of Maine’s coastline, stopping in Portland and Bath so that the public could explore the ship and get a taste of the state’s maritime history, the historical schooner, built in 1921 and operated by the Maine Maritime Academy, is a historical jewel with a rich and fascinating history.
Nowadays ships are built to be big and imposing, the Oasis-class cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world at 47 meters wide, 360 meters long and capable of carrying 6000 passengers and the Mærsk E-class container ship Ebba Mærsk at 397 meters long and 47 meters wide, have set benchmarks in the size of these various kinds of ships. Read more
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