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Best of 2011: Climbing out of homelessness, to Mount Rainier
Participants in Seattle Union Gospel Mission's recovery program reached the peak of The Mountain.
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Best of 2011: Farmers to Monsanto: Save our seeds
Eastern Washington farmers are increasingly worried about agricultural invasion from Monsanto's unwanted genetically modified and patent-protected seeds, which can threaten a farm's organic status and land them in court. Now a national coalition of independent farmers is fighting back.
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Best of 2011: Low income? No farmers market for you
Chase fees and this year's budget cuts mean Seattle's Farmer's Market Nutrition Program may be on the chopping block. In some low-income neighborhoods, it could mean serious trouble for the markets themselves.
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Best of 2011: Machu Picchu? Not the best spot in its neighborhood
Nearby Peruvians towns offer a living culture. Machu Picchu was impressive, even worthy of its billing, but there are also larger collections of Incan ruins elsewhere.
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Mountain, deer, infant: the elusive nature of the sacred
Like a hallowed place, the holiday season may prompt us to expect the sacred. But looking can be the greatest impediment to finding what we need.