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October 3, 2007
Film Review: Black Gold By Craig Copeland I winced while watching the manager of the original Starbucks store in Seattle's Pike Place Market gush about how she's "not in the coffee-serving business...
October 3, 2007
Web Review: whc.unesco.org When our prehistoric forebears first gathered waste from the communal cave and tossed it in the river, they couldn't have imagined that such a convenient, expedient...
October 3, 2007
leave your car running, but it's not moving, you're using gasoline to go nowhere. You're not just getting poor gas mileage. You're getting no gas mileage: zero miles per gallon. Idling wastes money...
January 22, 2007
CAVE people are citizens who oppose virtually everything. A person who is vehemently anti-development is a BANANA, because his mantra is "Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything." Both are...
January 22, 2007
Advertising occasionally gets it right. Like this headline for a municipal power company urging customers to sign up for pollution-free, wind-generated electricity: Drop the kids at soccer. Pick up...
January 22, 2007
By Stephanie Jackman "Land of the midnight sun" is how I now think of Hong Kong. On my recent visit I was astounded at the cosmic brilliance of the city's light displays. You haven't been there? Put...