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July 13, 2007: Headlines

Tacoma's new bridge looks like the first deck you built in your backyard

Posted Fri, Jul 13, 9 p.m.

$849 million buys Washington a new bridge to cross the Tacoma Narrows, but we miss an opportunity to depart from the dull. Paging Norman Foster.

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Miracle: A mainstream newspaper sheds the pretense of detachment

Posted Fri, Jul 13, midnight

Seattle Times columnist Jerry Brewer has been chronicling the lives of a girl with terminal cancer and her family. Gloria Strauss' parents pray that a miracle will occur, that she will survive. A common story line. Not so common is Brewer's emotional immersion, his willingness to be openly close to the subjects: "I want them to get their miracle."

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