Blessed unionTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:34PMDistance kept them apart for more than half their married life. Love for the family keeps them together.
Community theater: playing nearby tonightTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:51PMBY GREGORY D.V. HOLMES Correspondent The curtain opens. Location: your home. Time: the weekend. Family member No. 1: What do you want to do tonight? Narrator: How about dinner and a show? Family member No. 2: We went to the movies last week. Narrator: Nice, but I am talking about community theater live on stage — musicals and plays. Family members react approvingly. read more
Chasing the high: As drug use patterns change in Snoqualmie Valley, responders find there is no ‘typical’ addictTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:47PMShe was 16 and already using meth, so why try heroin? Her boyfriend was using it, and wanted her to, but she wasn’t interested, until the day that her friends held her down and injected her with the opiate. She liked it immediately, and started using it, heavily. “In my teen years, I would use almost two grams a day,” said Raechel Femling, who still has a black mark on her arm from that day, 14 ...
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 7/19/2011Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:09PMRelease Time: For Immediate Release James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:39 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Okay. Q Any announcements? MR. CARNEY: Hold on one second. (Laughter.) Q Are we going to hear from the President -- MR. CARNEY: I hope you enjoyed the warm-up act. That’s probably bad, right? I do have -- (laughter) -- I do have a -- Q How much do you value your job? (Laughter.) MR. CARNEY: I do ...
A visit from MosesTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:10PMHe’s a larger-than-life Maasai warrior and safari operator in Kenya, so I thought he wouldn’t be surprised by much on a visit to Canada. I was wrong. He marvelled at everything
Sal Khan, teacher to the worldTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:52PMby Chris Kenrick Can a hedge-fund guy find fame, fortune and fulfillment as a social entrepreneur? Meet Salman Khan of Mountain View, an MIT-trained former hedge-fund analyst who is fast becoming -- somewhat accidentally, as he tells it -- math teacher to the world.
FEMA gets mixed reviews three months after NC tornadoesMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:19PMThree months after tornadoes tore across North Carolina, killing 24 people, FEMA has taken more than 9,700 applications for grants and loans and approved more than $18 million in assistance. However, the WRAL Investigates team found that most people don't qualify for help.
Seattlepi.com’s guide to cutting the cord on cable/satellite TVMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:14PMshare: digg facebook twitter AP photo So, you’re thinking of cutting your cable or satellite TV service and going all-Web. There’s an expanding world of online TV and movie services out there, and every day it’s getting easier and easier to watch it all on your television instead of your computer screen. Services like Hulu, Netflix, ESPN, iTunes, Amazon [...]
Sydney's best baristasMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:08AMFive standout baristas show there's so much more to making good coffee than grinding, brewing and pouring, writes Jill Dupleix.