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F100 visits Sydney (click to view full) Under the SEA 4000 Air Warfare Destroyer program, Australia plans to replace its retired air defense destroyers with modern ships that can provide significantly better protection from air attack, integrate with...

Visual Arts The well-attended recent Seattle Art Fair provided a numbered of opportunities to get a glance at work and artists we don’t often see in this region. Bay Area artists such as Ruth Asawa and Hung Liu had a number of works on view. Asawa,...

“Ocian in view! Oh! The Joy!,” William Clark wrote in his journal on November 7, 1805 as he viewed what he believed was the Pacific Ocean, as the Corps of Discovery reached the broad estuary of the Columbia River, 20 miles from the coast. Clark’s exhilaration...

You Would Think Rural, Progressive San Juan Island Would Welcome a Weed Farm. You Would Be Very, Very Wrong. by Christopher Morris-Lent You would think San Juan County would be a perfect place to start a pot farm. The drizzly climate, the hippies,...

by Carolyn Baker at Speaking Truth to Power How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? Stephen Levine, A Year To Live: How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last Whenever the topic of near-term human extinction arises...