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Study: Brain inflammation may be why diets fail

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Carol M. Ostrom - Dec. 30 (News Report) - Soon after eating a high-fat diet, humans and rodents begin to show evidence of injury to the part of the brain that regulates weight, according to a new study from the University of Washington and other institutions.

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Shale boom may help lead U.S. to energy independence

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kevin G.Hall - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - The United States could pass its 1970s peak as an oil-and-gas producer in less than a decade with the help of a shale formation in Pennsylvania.

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High U.S. terrorism conviction rate doesn't tell whole story

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - Of the 196 most serious terrorism cases brought to court in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, 178 have ended in convictions, either through a guilty plea or a jury's decision, according to a review of government documents and interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys.

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Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 18 (News Report) - The powerful flow of the Mississippi River, which brought destruction to scores living near its flooded banks this spring, is viewed by a new generation of energy entrepreneurs as a reliable alternative way of generating electricity.

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Policymakers repeating the same mistakes that prolonged the Great Depression

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - Economic conditions today — with output growing but unemployment still very high — bear a strong resemblance to those in 1936-37. Leaders are pivoting away from jobs to other concerns, whose wrongheadedness has been highlighted by recent economic data.

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Judges hear state's attempt to keep Yucca Mountain open for nuclear waste

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Mar. 23 - Federal appeals court judges heard arguments Tuesday in a case over whether the Obama administration had the authority to stop plans to bury the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada.

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Sharron Angle jumps into Nevada congressional race

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Mar. 17 (News) - Nearly five months after her strong bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Harry Reid ended in defeat, Sharron Angle said Wednesday she'll run for Congress again in an effort to "stop the liberal agenda."

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Ranks of cancer survivors growing fast, CDC says

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - Mar. 10 (News) - The number of cancer survivors in the United States is increasing by hundreds of thousands a year, and now includes roughly one in 20 adults, health officials said Thursday.

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Obesity epidemic hits the diaper set?

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:05:00 -0800

Seattle Times - Jan. 24 - WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Ten years ago, pediatrician Gary Bean began noticing a trend in his Oakland, Calif., practice. Babies were increasingly bigger, and they weren't thinning out by the time they were crawling and walking. Toddlers came to appoin

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The nation is ruled by zombie economics

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - When historians look back at 2008-10, what will puzzle them most, I believe, is the strange triumph of failed ideas. Free-market fundamentalists have been wrong about everything — yet they now dominate the political scene more thoroughly than ever.

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World's running out of places to catch fish

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - Dec. 03 (News Report) - Global fisheries have expanded so rapidly over the past half-century that the world is running out of places to catch wild fish, according to a new study conducted by researchers in Canada, the United States and Australia.

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GOP bloodlust endangers the economy, national security

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - The GOP isn't interested in helping the economy as long as a Democrat is in the White House, writes columnist Paul Krugman. The same GOP obstructionism applies to a desperately needed strategic arms treaty. If sabotaging the president endangers the nation, so be it.

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Building and filling Arizona jail cells for profit

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 28 (Editorial) - The business-model roots of Arizona's punitive immigration law are revealed by a National Public Radio report.

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Progressives frustration with Obama at their peril

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By E. J. Dionne - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - Here's the paradox for progressives, writes E.J. Dionne Jr. While many on the left are frustrated with the White House for not being bold enough, they keenly understand how much their aspirations would be set back if an increasingly right-wing Republican Party wins one or both houses this fall.

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Resist those who would rewrite the history of civil rights

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Attempts by some conservatives to rewrite the history of the civil-rights movement are disturbing. Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. sets the record straight, reminding people that history even with its rough edges, needs to be embraced.

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Ominous lesson may lurk in cause of oil-rig blowout

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Joel Achenbach - May. 11 (News Report) - The Gulf is now witnessing a slow-motion disaster, one that looked even grimmer Sunday after news that the containment dome that had been lowered onto the worst of the oil leaks was sidelined by technical problems.

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April 'Earth Month' our worst ever

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Danny Westneat - May. 02 (Opinion) - April was "Earth Month," a time to show our love for the planet. Surely no one is more relieved this observance has come to an end than Earth.

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Seniors skeptical of health overhaul

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Nov. 17 (Special Report) - For seniors opposed to an overhaul, much of the fear stems from well-publicized news reports of massive Medicare cuts over a decade. The House bill calls for nearly $500 billion in spending cuts that are designed to keep Medicare solvent longer by reducing fraud, waste and excessive spending. Half the cuts would be to what experts call excessive payments to home-health, skilled-nursing and other institutional health providers.

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A tragic clash of cultures

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - An Iraqi immigrant father runs down his daughter with his car and calls it honor. That is not honor, writes columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. It is an act of appalling cowardice suggestive not simply of religious extremism but of a people in fear of the sexuality and independence of women.

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Gay-rights support stops at Cascades

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lornet Turnbull - Nov. 05 (News Report) - The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, show the challenge supporters of gay rights face in winning over all Washingtonians as they seek full equality.

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Adding more U.S. troops to the Afghanistan mess is a bad idea

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - We should not underestimate the strength of nationalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly among the 40 million Pashtuns who live on both sides of the border there. It's difficult to see why adding 40,000 more U.S. troops to the area will stabilize the situation.

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Campaign-spending case will be a big test for Chief Justice Roberts

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By E. J. Dionne - Sep. 08 (Opinion) - The full impact of what the U.S. Supreme Court could do in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has only begun to receive the attention it deserves. Will the court use a case originally brought on a narrow issue to bring our politics back to the corruption of the Gilded Age?

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Progressives shouldn't confuse a party with a movement

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By David Sirota - Sep. 08 (Opinion) - Though the 2006 and 2008 elections were billed as progressive movement successes, the story behind them highlights a longer-term failure. During those contests, most leaders of Washington's major labor, environmental, antiwar and anti-poverty groups spent millions of dollars on a party endeavor — specifically, on electing a Democratic president and Democratic Congress. In the process, many groups subverted their own movement agendas in the name of electoral unity.

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A man with two countries forced to choose the one that will take care of him.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Keven Drews - Aug. 25 (Opinion) - I SUPPORT President Obama's health-care reform. I am a 36-year-old man who has dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. Born in Washington, I wanted to make my life there, but I was forced to move to British Columbia, Canada, after I got sick six years ago.

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NewsTrust - All Rated Stories

Study: Brain inflammation may be why diets fail

Shale boom may help lead U.S. to energy independence

High U.S. terrorism conviction rate doesn't tell whole story

Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Policymakers repeating the same mistakes that prolonged the Great Depression

More questions than answers about Japan nuclear crisis

Judges hear state's attempt to keep Yucca Mountain open for nuclear waste

Sharron Angle jumps into Nevada congressional race

Ranks of cancer survivors growing fast, CDC says

Obesity epidemic hits the diaper set?

The nation is ruled by zombie economics

World's running out of places to catch fish

GOP bloodlust endangers the economy, national security

Building and filling Arizona jail cells for profit

Progressives frustration with Obama at their peril

Resist those who would rewrite the history of civil rights

Ominous lesson may lurk in cause of oil-rig blowout

April 'Earth Month' our worst ever

Seniors skeptical of health overhaul

A tragic clash of cultures

Gay-rights support stops at Cascades

Adding more U.S. troops to the Afghanistan mess is a bad idea

Campaign-spending case will be a big test for Chief Justice Roberts

Progressives shouldn't confuse a party with a movement

A man with two countries forced to choose the one that will take care of him.