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What’s next for Gates? Anything he can dream up - Seattle Post Intelligencer
What's next for Gates? Anything he can dream up Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jun 25, 2008 "He is using that to learn about all kinds of disparate fields, in science and in world affairs." Myhrvold has some firsthand evidence: A nuclear reactor. ...
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Chapter 2: Pike Place Market
Chapter 2: Pike Place Market • No Comments Current Mood: Happy Today Alan and I decided to be really manly and shop at the market. But not just any market, the world famous Pike Place Market. Okay, so maybe it’s not world famous. But it was still pretty cool. The drive to Seattle is not bad…
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Officially moved to Seattle: Day 1
All times are in PST, 3hrs behind EST unless otherwise noted. i.e. 12pm (lunchtime) PST = 3pm EST. 11am We arrive in at SeaTac airport about ~11am, stroll thru the airport and jump in the company supplied rental and head to pick up our key packet for the corporate housing. The sun is…
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Pride Color
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Neighbors come to rescue in raging fire that kills three
About 50 people were displaced Sunday morning after a three-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in Burien, fire officials said. Three people are still missing and a teenage girl escaped by jumping from the second floor.
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Getting There: Elliott Avenue bus-only lane questions
More Elliott Avenue bus-only lane questions; and southbound cars backed up on Seward Park Avenue South
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Echoes of a distant, different war hum this July 4
On this Independence Day, stories of a distant, different war.
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It was hot at the Pride Parade. And so was the temperature
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the Seattle Pride Parade on Sunday and cheered on participants to celebrate the region's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities.
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SUV lifted off victim of rollover accident
A Ford Explorer rolled over onto an ejected passenger Sunday morning on Interstate 405 but passersby and a State Patrol sergeant lifted the vehicle off the man, officials said. The 18-year-old driver has been arrested on suspicion of DUI.
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Toasty temperatures break state records
If you thought the weekend was hot, you were right. In fact, it tied a few records, especially on Saturday.
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Two women hurt in downtown parking lot brawl
A melee involving about 40 people broke out early Saturday morning in a downtown parking lot in the 800 block of Fifth Avenue. A woman was stabbed in her abdomen, the Seattle police reported.
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4 shot near Pike Place Market
A fight at Victor Steinbrueck Park led to a shooting that sent four men to the hospital early Sunday evening as tourists and onlookers took cover near Pike Place Market.
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Family opposes Steinbrueck Park redo
The parks department wants to make changes to the layout of Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market in an effort to reduce criminal activity. But his family and friends bristle at the idea, saying the design isn't causing the crime.
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Experts launch effort to end racial disparity in foster care
Experts began to sit down last week and figure out how to reduce the disparity of African-American and Native-American children in foster care.
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Hundreds of Seattle Marathon runners miss bus to starting line
About 400 runners, many of whom had spent months training for Sunday's Seafair Marathon, missed the shuttle to the starting line and didn't make the start, even though it was delayed 15 minutes after organizers realized there was a problem.
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$70 million shortfall, but politics to spare
It could be a rocky year ahead for King County, governmentwise. The reasons? Not enough money, and maybe too much politics.
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Law is true calling for 'Survivor' alum
Nick Brown is a Harvard Law School graduate, former Army officer and now a federal prosecutor. But it's for his appearance on "Survivor" seven years ago that, much to his chagrin, people remember him.
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The sky was no limit on her dreams
Marge Iten, now 86 and of Bellevue, became a pilot after World War II -- a rare feat for that era.
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Electric vehicles mix with the big boys at annual car show
Mixed in with the muscle cars and sparkling classics at the annual Greenwood Car Show were a few electric cars, drawing the interest of motorists weary of high gas prices.
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Record-tying heat in Puget Sound
As of 6 p.m., the National Weather Service in Seattle had measured the temperature at the Sea-Tac Airport weather station as 91 degrees Fahrenheit, tying a record set on June 28, 1995.
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One killed in Pierce County crash
A Tacoma man was killed when he crashed his motorycycle along state Route 512 in Pierce County Friday night.
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Music, art and power tools -- Artopia brings them together
An estimated 10,000 people flooded the Georgetown neighborhood Saturday for a good, old-fashioned carnival. It was Artopia.
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Driver arrested for DUI in fatal head-on crash
Troopers arrested a woman for suspicion of DUI after she allegedly caused a head-on crash that left one person dead and a second in critical condition.
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Woman stabbed, friend beaten in early morning brawl
A melee involving about 40 people broke out Saturday morning in a downtown parking lot in the 800 block of Fifth Avenue. A woman was stabbed in her abdomen, the Seattle police reported.
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Summer makes its official debut
The National Weather Service is forecasting that the blazing orb that avoided Seattle in early June will hover unobstructed through the weekend. Temperatures will be in the 80s to 90s.
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Council previews parks levy
With less than a month to decide whether to ask voters for a parks-dedicated tax increase, Seattle City Council members got their first look Friday morning at a proposed $140 million, six-year levy.
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School for children with autism centers on customized learning
Launched by a group of Seattle parents in less than 10 months, the Academy for Precision Learning has wrapped up a successful first school year and is looking to double enrollment in the fall. The program aims to help struggling students.
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No Parking Anytime: It's summer ... got money for a cause?
At this time of year, as if on cue with the profusion of map-unfolding tourists, there also are clipboard-holding canvassers.
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No justice for former suspect in slaying, either
The man who was charged with killing Jessie Drungo two years ago is free. And he is speaking out about the investigation and putting his life back together.
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Eugene Morgan, 1920-2008: Survived worst Navy disaster
Eugene Morgan, a West Seattle resident who survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II, died June 18. He was 87.
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2 critically wounded in Kent shooting
Kent police believe a dispute over a video game may have led to a double shooting Thursday. No arrests have been made.
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Manslaughter charge filed in fire pit death
King County prosecutors charged a Federal Way father Friday with second-degree manslaughter, saying the man's negligence caused the death of his 7-month-old son, who was found June 21 in a backyard fire pit.
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Ex-detective gets more jail time in alcohol cases
A former Seattle police detective who set a breath-test record was sentenced to more than a year in jail and three months in home detention for a series of alcohol-related driving cases, two of which involved minor crashes.
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That vision of history on the horizon is 'America's Tall Ship'
One of the tallest of the world's remaining tall ships, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Eagle, will pay a surprise visit to Seattle Tuesday and Wednesday, en route to a festival of graceful sailing vessels in Tacoma.
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Hundreds turn out to remember fallen Marine
Hundreds turn out for services for Marine Sgt. Michael Washington, killed in Afghanistan on June 14.
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Advocates target racial disparity in foster care
Experts began to sit down this week and figure out how to reduce the disparity of African-American and Native-American children in foster care.
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Worker injured in 40-foot fall
The Washington State Department of Labor is investigating the 40-foot fall of a construction worker from a scaffold at the Juanita Bay Pump station on Friday, authorities said.
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Bail set in fatal hit-and-run
Bail was set at $250,000 Friday for a Tukwila man suspected of running over and killing a pedestrian and leaving the scene of the accident.
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City light postpones planned outage for International District
Seattle City Light has postponed a planned power outage Saturday in the International District because residents were not given enough advance warning, the utility said Friday. It will take place in July.
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Gasoline-doused man misses court date, warrant issued
A warrant has been issued for a man who was involved in a standoff with Seattle police last month in Greenwood after 911 reports that he had doused his estranged wife with gasoline.
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Articles Of Faith: 10 qualities you'll find in a person of integrity
What are the marks of a person of integrity? Here's a Top 10 list to consider.
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