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Shot down in Shanghai?
Another task Obama inherits is trying to bail out America's botched effort to have a pavilion at Shanghai's Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history. There are reasons to hope that "yes, he can."
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How Wall Street is destroying the timber way of life
The pressure for real estate and the short-term perspective of fancy Wall Street financial instruments have changed the old line companies utterly.
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Is it wrong to have a Negro Creek?
An effort to change the name in Chelan County has run into resistance, and the episode raises the quite complex issues of updating names to modern sensibilities.
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Not another slug trivet: The best gifts from the Northwest
Make space in the needles for a Space Needle ornament, and break out the salted caramels for gifts that say they came from here and nowhere else.
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Two stunning evenings of dance, bridging cultural differences
Lines Ballet of San Francisco explores the commonalities of Chinese monks and modern American dance. Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater dances across the intractable Israeli-Palestinian divide.