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from Huffington Post
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Killing With Sound: What Happens When the Whales Stop Singing?
Killing With Sound: What Happens When the Whales Stop Singing?
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Milky Way Galaxy: Facts About Our Galactic Home
The Milky Way galaxy is most significant to humans because it is home sweet home. But when it comes down to it, our galaxy is a typical barred spiral, much like billions of other galaxies in the universe.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Cuts to hit wide swath of America
About 750,000 jobs likely will be lost
McMorris Rodgers seeks delay on proposed casino
Knitting Factory concert hall back in business
City reinstates entertainment license; company will work to help quell lawlessness
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Washington – A group of Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Linda Sanchez of California, is launching an effort to secure money for gun buybacks, firearms safety campaigns and anti-violence programs from a new tax on handgun purchases.
Sanchez unveiled the bill, which would impose a 10 percent tax on handgun purchases, Thursday.
The measure is among a spate of bills introduced in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that left 27 dead, including the gunman.
Gun buyback programs have been popular in cities, with Los Angeles taking in 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons, at a buyback program in December.
Gay marriage backers drop Laura Bush ads
Dallas – A pro-gay marriage group will replace ads that include former first lady Laura Bush speaking on the topic with a new ad this weekend after Bush said she did not want to be part of its campaign.
The Respect for Marriage Coalition said Thursday that it appreciated Bush’s previous comments, “but are sorry she didn’t want to be included in an ad.” The national advertising campaign of print, television and online ads that launched this week featured part of a Bush interview on CNN in which she says: “When couples are committed to each other and love each other then they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.”
The ads that began running Wednesday also included clips of President Barack Obama, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell talking favorably about same-sex marriage.
Three convicted of plot to set off bombs in England
London – Three men accused of plotting what would have been the biggest terrorist attack in Britain since the 2005 London transit bombings were found guilty on terrorism charges Thursday.
The trio, British Muslims from the English city of Birmingham, were accused of planning to set off up to eight bombs in backpacks in crowded places as part of a suicide rampage. No date or target was set for the attack.
The defendants – Ashik Ali, 27; Irfan Khalid, 27; and Irfan Naseer, 31 – were recorded discussing the potential use of assault rifles and poison and putting blades on the sides of cars to mow down pedestrians. They expressed hope that their casualty count would eclipse that of the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings of subway trains and a bus in London that killed 52.
The three face life in prison when they are sentenced in April or May.
Study finds campaign against HIV/AIDS working
An intensive campaign to combat HIV/AIDS with costly antiretroviral drugs in rural South Africa has increased life expectancy by more than 11 years and significantly reduced the risk of infection for healthy individuals, according to new research.
The two studies, published Thursday in the journal Science, come as wealthy Western nations are debating how best to stretch limited AIDS funding at a time of economic stress. With an annual price tag of $500 to $900 per patient, antiretroviral therapy programs have stirred frequent debate.
The new economic analysis of a $10.8 million campaign in KwaZulu-Natal province concluded that the drug scale-up there had been highly cost-effective.
Envoy receives contract extension
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. and the Arab League have extended the mission of their joint envoy to Syria through the end of the year, despite the lack of progress in international efforts to end a civil war that has killed at least 60,000 people.
Lakhdar Brahimi’s contract was due to expire today. It has been renewed through the rest of 2013.
All international efforts to end Syria’s civil war have failed amid divisions within the U.N. Security Council on how to approach the conflict. Brahimi, a 79-year-old Algerian diplomat, replaced Kofi Annan as envoy in August after the former U.N. secretary-general failed to broker a cease-fire.
Bill bars ‘vapor’ cigarettes from kids
OLYMPIA – “Vapor” cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without the need to light up tobacco, would be illegal for minors in Washington under a bill that got unanimous support from a House panel Thursday.
The House Government Accountability and Oversight Committee voted 8-0 to put so-called vapor products under the same age restrictions as cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products. The products give the user a dose of nicotine in a device designed to look like a cigarette that releases a vapor.
Committee members described House Bill 1937 as a “no-brainer” in a state that doesn’t even allow the sale of cigarette papers to minors, and a representative of RJR Tobacco said the company supports it. Chairman Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, said the issue is nicotine and “this is just a different delivery system.”
Jobless claims up slightly
WASHINGTON – The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped 20,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 362,000, though it remains at a level that suggests slow but steady improvement in the job market.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose 8,000 to 360,750, the highest in six weeks.
Applications for unemployment benefits are a proxy for layoffs. Even with last week’s jump, they have trended downward recently. The four-week average has declined 7.5 percent since mid-November and fell to a five-year low three weeks ago.
Employers added an average of 200,000 jobs a month from November through January. That was up from about 150,000 in the previous three months. Last week’s increase puts applications for unemployment benefits back in the 360,000-to-390,000 range, where they have fluctuated since early last year. Since then, employers have added an average of 181,000 jobs a month.
A total of 5.6 million people received unemployment benefits in the week that ended Feb. 2, the latest period for which figures are available. That’s about 300,000 fewer than in the previous week. Some of those no longer receiving unemployment aid may now be employed. But many others have exhausted the benefits available to them.
United drops 787 until June
United Airlines cut the grounded Boeing 787 from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights on Thursday, as airlines continued to tear up their schedules while the plane is out of service.
Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a battery fire in one plane and forced the emergency landing of another plane last month. The world’s 50 787s have been grounded since Jan. 16.
United spokeswoman Christen David said the plane could still fly earlier than June 5 if a fix is found. At that point it would be used as needed around United’s system, she said.
United was due to begin flying from Denver to Tokyo’s Narita airport on March 31. It’s postponing the start of those flights at least until May 12, or longer if the 787 isn’t cleared to fly. That would be almost a year after United began selling tickets for the flight.
U.S. wine exports grow
SAN FRANCISCO – New figures show U.S. wine exports grew for the third consecutive year in 2012, setting a record of $1.43 billion in revenue, the San Francisco-based Wine Institute said Thursday.
Ninety percent of those exports were from California. Volume shipments reached 424.6 million liters, or 112.2 million cases.
The European Union remained the top market for California wines, accounting for about 34 percent of all sales. The state’s wineries also saw significant growth in Canada and Asia.
Sales in China reached $74 million in 2012, up 18 percent from the previous year. South Korea, at $16 million, was up 26 percent.
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Hagel secures Senate support
Former senator likely to be confirmed
Flu shot doing poor job protecting elderly
Effectiveness is worst in about a decade
Labor, business set immigration guides
Agreement on principles could spur lawmakers
Franco Ordonez McClatchy-Tribune
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Car bomb in Syria leaves scores dead
Attack targeted ruling Baath Party headquarters
Idaho Senate backs health insurance exchange
Health insurance exchange setup now heads for House vote
Spokane’s Montvale Hotel faces bankruptcy
Hotel company owes more than $1 million in debts and obligations
Passing motorists find crash on a hunch, save kids
The sisters survived several hours alone
Bill plants the seed for hemp farming
Most hemp products in the U.S. are imported
Panel backs wilderness trail improvements
Home sales show strength in January
Tighter supply of houses dampened recent surge
Banks grant $45.8 billion aid
Relief from five largest mortgage servicers part of a deal struck last year
Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times
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sports:
Gebbers leads Whitworth into NWC title game
Steve Christilaw Correspondent
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from The Wenatchee World
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| The crew of the P.F. Scheble Lumber and Box Co. in 1923. |
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| This photo taken around 1891 shows the Middleton sawmill located in No. 2 Canyon. |
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