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University of Oregon blows its innovation chance
Aiming to rank among the academic elite, like the University of Washington, the U of O instead winds up writing how-not-to lesson plans for a tight budget era.
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Soaring Hanford costs raise new clean-up questions
If expenses continually go up, it becomes hard to see how the legal mandates to clean up the most dangerous wastes can ever be met, at least on time.
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Sequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here
The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.
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The waterfront: keep kitsch alive
Here's hoping the waterfront makeover resists attempts to sanitize. Another concern: not turning it into a second Seattle Center.