A longtime friend came up at a party last week, asking what it would
take to get me on board the campaign that seeks to tear down the
Alaskan Way Viaduct, and not replace it.
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One dramatic display will feature a 30-foot painted scroll depicting
the epic of Pabuji, a semi-divine folk hero. Traditionally, the Pabuji
tale is recounted in a 36-hour performance by professional
storytellers,...
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Vicki Cassman, assistant professor and director of undergraduate
studies in UD's art conservation department, has been selected to join
conservators Nancy Odegaard and Ronald Harvey in Ethiopia to document
and...
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Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were
established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled
across the continent, according to new research published this week in
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA.
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Reflections of Culture draws from
Fernbank’s permanent collections, including the
Dorothy M. McClatchey Collection. The artifacts in
the exhibition showcase the fascinating similarities
...
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"The ice storms that have been blamed for at least 19 deaths continued to lash much of the nation Sunday, as crews tried to restore power to hundreds of thousands and slick roads spawned accidents."
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"For most of the last century, three names — Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller — have defined the world of foundation philanthropy, but that is changing, and fast."
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"Officials and relatives say the children appeared to be mimicking the former dictator's Dec. 30 hanging, shown both on a sanitized Iraqi government tape and explicit clandestine videos that popped up on Web sites...
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Guangzhou is a chaotic export capital in southern China that for years
has been a magnet for migrant workers like Lin Mu. He arrived three
years ago and began working as a motorcycle taxi driver, ferrying
people...
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The 49-year-old Aurora resident began riding a stationary bike at the
Five Seasons Sports Club in Burr Ridge at 4 a.m. Wednesday and
surpassed the previous record of 82 hours by 8:28 p.m. Saturday. He
stopped...
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A spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that
consular officials had had their latest contact with Warya Kanie by
phone on Thursday, when they let him know about the death of his father
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