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Forest Scientists Meet With Treesitters
The White Castle pilot project is an unusual kind of logging proposal and it's led to an unusual forest defender vs. forest scientist dynamic.
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Hannity gets snippy about Maddow and ratings
Apparently Playboy is still a thing and Fox News ' Sean Hannity sat down with them for an interview in which he got pretty annoyed talking about his roller coaster ratings and Rachel Maddow .
Video Preview: Shock Celebrate With Dance
The Shock have specially choreographed dances to celebrate touchdowns. From receivers to lineman, there are specific roles.
Cartoon Violence and Children's Sleep
In a flurry of articles published in the LA Times , USA Today and elsewhere , journalists report a few months ago, we learned of a a surprising finding described in a recent article in the scholarly journal Pediatrics .
Nike Golf Adds #1 Amateur in the World, Chris Williams to its Roster
Nike Golf has announced the addition of the #1 ranked amateur in the world, Chris Williams, to its talented athlete roster.
Wash. Teacher Prep Falls Short For Students With Disabilities
As educational practice catches up with federal law that requires students learn in the least restrictive environment, an increasing number of students with autism and other disabilities are learning alongside their typically-developing peers in mainstream classrooms.
Once-Exotic Carbon Fiber Inches Toward the Mainstream
Time has long been carbon fiber's enemy. The time a preimpregnated sheet of woven carbon fiber can spend at room temperature before it starts to set up; the time it takes to lay up a structure of this "pre-preg" in a mold; the time it then spends in an autoclave at 220-350 degrees F and 100 psi pressure.
On The Market: Tacoma's Premier Development Site
Today the City of Tacoma released a Request For Proposals for the 7-ish acre/block site that has been sitting vacant for more than a decade.
Charge: UW student raped 12-year-old runaway
A University of Washington student accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl he picked up in the University District has been charged with child rape.
Q&A: Fort Collins new FC Bikes Program Manager
It took more than a year and a competitive nationwide search, but Fort Collins has found a new FC Bikes Program manager to take Fort Collins to the next level as a bicycling community.
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L.S. students accepted into Aerospace Scholars Program at Museum of Flight in Seattle
The Washington Aerospace Scholars program is pleased to announce that the following students will be participating in one of the four WAS Summer Residency sessions held in June and July at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
WSU makes honor role, but most teacher prep programs get low marks
Washington State University's teacher preparation program was one of only 104 such programs in the nation that made the honor role for quality in a newly-released study of teacher training programs.
Fiber-optic pen helps see inside brains of children with learning disabilities
The device and research using it to study the brain patterns of children will be presented June 18 at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting in Seattle.
Italian Supreme Court rules Meredith Kercher murder was a sex game...
Bad news: Amanda Knox has called the reversal by the Cassation 'painful' but said she is confident she would be exonerated Italy's high court today faulted the acquittal of Amanda Knox by the appeals court for the murder of her roommate, ruling that it WAS a 'sex game gone wrong' and ordered her back for trial.
Fiber-Optic Pen Inexpensively Helps Researchers Study Brains of Children With Disabilities
The tool is a fiber-optic pen that is used with a sheet of paper specially printed with varying color gradients.
Regional News Stories: Grading the Teachers: Little Connection...
This week The Plain Dealer and public radio's StateImpact Ohio have been reporting on a new measure of teacher performance.
Bringing Light to the Heart of Darkness
With the Democratic Republic of Congo plagued by nearly 25 years of conflict and civil war, researchers are hoping to defeat a different type of battle: mental health and mental illness.
Vestibular Prosthesis To Help Restore Balance For Those With Meniere's Disease
Main Category: Ear, Nose and Throat Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 18 Jun 2013 - 0:00 PDT Many disorders of the inner hear which affect both hearing and balance can be hugely debilitating and are currently largely incurable.
Diet may affect Alzheimer's disease risk
The lipidation states in certain proteins in the brain that are related to the development of Alzheimer disease appear to differ depending on genotype and cognitive diseases, and levels of these protein and peptides appear to be influenced by diet, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Neurology.
NASA's new astronauts could one day blast off to Mars
After a year and a half of culling through 6,100 applicants, NASA has chosen four men and four women to train to become astronauts and potentially travel to an asteroid or even Mars .