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2007 in review: Mossback hunts down the wildest animal stories of the year
Giant swimming rats, seducing Sasquatch, and bear-hunting at the Vancouver Olympics.
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That buttery P-I expose? Smells like old lawsuits
The P-I is celebrating [http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/128202.asp] its coverage of diacetyl [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/344277_diacetyl21.html], a butter-flavored chemical additive often found in microwave popcorn and butter-substitutes.
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Daylight grows again, and so does the garden
It's bleak midwinter on Vashon Island and you'd think the garden would have sense enough to hunker down and wait for better weather. Thankfully, no. Outside the dining room window, a pink viburnum (Viburnum x bodnantense) is in full bloom on the year's shortest day, a joyful counterpoint to the driz
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The dos and don'ts of Christmas cards
Caution: trying to do something nice can be fraught with hazards, but don't give up on sending good cheer.
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Should King County be in the ferry business again?
The county once before ran ferries, only to be rescued by the state. Now the state is too broke to keep the passenger boats running, and the county has got the bug again. It's expensive, there are other solutions, and Vashon Islanders were once dead set against passenger-only ferries. But hey, nosta