Seattle gets recycling award, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Seeded on Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:24 PM EDT (djc.com)

April 25, 2006

business, market, award, seattle, garbage, recycle, ordinance

Cherry farm ruled noisy nuisance to neighbors, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Seeded on Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:20 AM EDT (djc.com)

April 27, 2006

farm, neighbors, guns, odd-news, cherries, noise, apples, nuisance

Man Recovered From Raft Puzzles Swedes - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:47 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish authorities Saturday were investigating how a man calling himself a "stateless American" ended up floating on a raft of oil barrels and wood planks in the waters between Denmark and Norway.

boat, new-york, american, odd-news, ship, raft, over-board, george-williams

Protest on White House lawn

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:11 AM EDT (CNET)

(The Irish Times Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Madam, - Hats off to the lady who heckled the Chinese leader on the White House lawn.

human-rights, china, white-house, protest, censorship, persecution, falun-gong, hu, chinese-leader, heckling

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Three Genes

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:33 AM EDT (medpagetoday.com)

ATLANTA, April 20 - Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been linked to five mutations in three genes that are related to the body's ability to handle stress.

study, health, genes, genetics, biology, cdc, chronic-catigue-syndrome

New Plan May Reverse Type 1 Diabetes

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:28 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 20, 2006 -- Scientists have used a two-pronged treatment to reverse recent-onset type 1 diabetesdiabetes in mice.

study, health, diabetes, diabetes-treatment, type-1-diabetes

Childbirths and Breast Cancer Risk

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:25 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 20, 2006 -- Full-term pregnancypregnancy provides a similar level of protection against breast cancerbreast cancer to women who are genetically predisposed to develop the disease and those who are not, findings from a European study show.

cancer, health, breast-cancer, pregnancy, child-birth, cancer-risk

Diabetes Up, Obesity to Blame

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:19 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 20, 2006 -- A new study spells out why Americans suffer more diabetesdiabetes than ever before: O-B-E-S-I-T-Y.

study, health, obesity, disease, diabetes, over-weight

Both Sexes Make Mistakes in Caring for Health

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:11 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

We are besieged daily by health advice: Take this, eat that, don't do the other. Yet even the most health aware -- not to mention the doctor averse -- can make mistakes in caring for themselves.

women, health, men, gender-differences, health-mistakes

Happier With Sex Life: Men or Women?

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:06 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 19, 2006 -- All over the world, men are more satisfied with their sex lives than women, a new study shows.

health, sex, sexual-health, satisfaction, sex-lives, hapiness

Breast Implants Not a Cancer Risk?

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:01 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 18, 2006 -- Cosmetic breast implants may not affect women's long-term cancercancer risk, a new study shows.

cancer, study, health, breast-cancer, smoking, lung-cancer, breast-implants, life-style

Aspartame-Cancer Link Refuted

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:52 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 4, 2006 (Washington) -- Diet soda lovers may be able to sip a little easier, thanks to a new study that shows that the artificial sweetener aspartame does not raise the risk of cancer.

cancer, study, health, aspartame, sugar-substitute

Extra Weight Someone Else's Problem

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:47 AM EDT (WebMD Health)

April 12, 2006 -- Most Americans see a serious weight problem among other Americans but often can't see it in themselves.

study, health, obese, weight, fat, over-weight

Super-Sized Perceptions

Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:33 AM EDT

We all know about portion distortion. We know that restaurants give us at least 2-3 times the amount of food we should be eating. We know that our dinner plates have gotten larger in recent years to accomodate our growing portion sizes.

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health, weight, bmi, overweight, underweight, healthy-weight

DJC.COM: Plans for fanciful skyscrapers proliferate, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:27 PM EDT (djc.com)

[the actual website appears to have some sort of formatting problem, so i've copied/pasted the article here for easier reading]

art, plans, museum, buildings, arts, architecture, skyscrapers, world-architecture

DJC.COM: Woods to become Trump State Park , provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:07 PM EDT (djc.com)

April 20, 2006

new-york, trump, park, woods, donald-trump, us-news, state-park

State sues tobacco firms over payments

Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:41 AM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

OLYMPIA -- Washington state sued more than a dozen tobacco companies Wednesday, joining several other states seeking $1.2 billion they say they is owed by cigarette makers under a landmark 1998 legal settlement.

state, lawsuit, settlement, us-news, payment, tabacco

Higher Education - work, pleasure, or both?

Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:17 PM EDT

People go to college for a variety of reasons... some young students go to college for lack of anything better to do. Some even go for the parties. Older students might go to pass the time, or to begin a new career.

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college, education, university, school

Artists & Technology... a funny new trend

Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:51 PM EDT

Historically speaking, artists have usually been ahead of their time in terms of technology. They also blazed the trail when it came to social and political trends.

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art, internet, arts, painting, sculpting