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Thursday's EastPAC Meeting features Wyking Garrett of the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
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No. 7 North Carolina rolls past NC State 74-55
The Seattle Times
Jan 27North Carolina State's front line of C.J. Leslie and Richard Howell provided enough inside punch to make the Wolfpack offense one of the Atlantic Coast Conference's best. Seventh-ranked North Carolina's size and length took that away Thursday night. »
Thursday's EastPAC Meeting features Wyking Garrett of the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
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Jan 25Thursday’s EastPAC Meeting features Wyking Garrett of the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center Wyking Garrett of the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center (UPC) will be our special guest at this Thursday’s, (January 26) EastPAC meeting. A multi-purpose youth-centered cu... »
Urban League sells historic 14th and Yesler headquarters for $2.7M
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Jan 19The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle has sold its historic headquarters building at 14th and Yesler in hopes of pulling itself out of recent financial and legal troubles. A couple local business owners purchased the 101-year-old building for $2.7 m... »
Urban League sells building for $2.7M; will pay debts, hire CEO
The Seattle TimesLocal News
Jan 18Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle sold its three-story, 101-year-old headquarters to Retail Lockbox owner Craig Dawson for $2.7 million. »
Virgin America to offer Philadelphia flights
Mynorthwest.com Business
Jan 17SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Virgin America says it will start flying to and from Philadelphia in April. The airline will offer three daily non-stop flights between Philadelphia and Los Angeles on April 4 and two daily non-stop flights between Philadelphia and... »
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Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley
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Feb 01Hugh Pickens writes "Brian Fung writes in the Atlantic that one of Romney's electoral problems is that he occupies a kind of uncanny valley for politicians, inexplicably turning voters off despite looking like the textbook image of an American presiden... »
Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better?
GeekWire
Jan 27Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week drills into Amazon’s effort to upend the book industry by moving into the publishing business. The piece by Brad Stone tells the story of Larry Kirshbaum, the former Time Warner Book Group chief who is now... »
City Gave $7.1 Million to the Anti-Gay Seattle Archdiocese Last Year
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Jan 26I want to make one thing clear: I think that an anti-gay institution like the Archdiocese of Seattle can do vital charity work without spreading its anti-gay cooties to the needy. I've long been a fan of its subsidiaries like Catholic Community Service... »
Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean
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Jan 24New submitter turkeyfish writes "UK scientists are reporting today in the journal Nature Geoscience that a huge bulge of freshwater is forming in the Western Arctic Ocean caused by a large gyre of freshwater. The gyre appears to indicate that the ice i... »
Secrets At Sea
Book Talk
Jan 23Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly MurphyDid you know that mice dream about only two things: cheese and time running out? Did you also know apple peelings keep the curl in a mouse's tail and mice really and truly don't like water? Un... »