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Obama: that cornered feeling

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.

A quick tour of his first year, his presidential style of management, and some of the tight corners he will have to escape.

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Saying Yes

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.

The author plays the Doubting and Believing games as she ponders an oddball kind of volunteering.

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Sex, death and 'Bodies'

Posted Wed, Nov 18, 6 a.m.

An exhibit of corpses is back for a second tour of Seattle, where it has been a huge hit. What are we really experiencing when we wander the gallery of the dead?

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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.

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Hitting the wall before the starting line

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

As the Seattle Marathon approaches, a local runner fights age and ailments to get to his 17th long-distance race.

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Election 09: National results point to a throw-them-out tide

Posted Wed, Nov 4, 6:56 a.m.

Incumbent Congressional Democrats in marginal districts will now run scared, making passage of health-care reform more difficult.

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Completing an Ironman, virtually

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.

At more than 140 miles spread among three events, the Ironman race is a huge feat to pull off all at once. But what if you could spread out the pain over a week?

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Five peeves, including uninspiring local campaigns

Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6 a.m.

Let's get down to some serious issues, rather than side shows about racism, public options, trade wars with China, Hutchison's past political leanings, and cynical appeals to quickie light rail lines.

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The failed promise of biotech in South Lake Union

Posted Thu, Sep 17, 6 a.m.

The City during the Nickels years has put a lot of money into building up the sector, but job growth for biotech has fallen far short of the promises.

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At the food bank

Posted Mon, Sep 14, 5:28 p.m.

Many languages. Way too many carbs and sugars. Few takers for the gallon bags of mustard.

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Humor: Down the royal road to AutoCare

Posted Sat, Sep 12, 6:08 p.m.

Defending our sacred right to the best possible automotive treatment, and fending off the menace of socialized care.

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Home, sweet medical home

Posted Thu, Sep 3, 6 a.m.

A new model for medical care, emphasizing the primary care doctor as leader of a medical-home team, is proving its worth at Group Health. The idea is now spreading to other Seattle-area practices, as well as across the nation.

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Doc, got anything to make me immortal?

Posted Thu, Aug 27, 6 a.m.

They're working on it, and the average life span just went up another 72 days. Here's a survey of some current scientific approaches to reversing aging.

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Very stormy weather

Posted Wed, Aug 26, 6 a.m.

In politics this Fall: wide-open battles for high stakes. For the public: a swine flu scare and possibly extensive flooding in the Green River Valley. For the politicians: defining moments.

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Humor: Let's get those death panels going!

Posted Sun, Aug 23, 6 a.m.

An Obama enthusiast hopes to volunteer for a stimulating new program

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The 'socialized medicine' red herring

Posted Thu, Aug 20, 6 a.m.

An experienced user and administrator of the British health care system predicts that nothing like government-run health care is likely to come to the U.S., nor should it. If anything, our reform model might better imitate France's.

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Why do people like Medicare and fear health care reform?

Posted Tue, Aug 18, 6 a.m.

A reporter talks to protesters at a Yakima rally and discovers profound disconnects between beliefs and behavior

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Why Obama's health reforms are in trouble

Posted Sun, Aug 16, 1:12 p.m.

He has given Congress too much say and shifted the rationale. The electorate is over-stressed. Time for incrementalism, if Obama and the Hill Democrats can pull it off.

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Portland Cong. Earl Blumenauer 'stunned' by reaction to his end-of-life-counseling provision

Posted Fri, Aug 14, 6 a.m.

His compassionate proposal passed a House committee without Republican opposition. Then came the political whirlwind, with 'outright lying' that the respected Congressman calls the worst in his 37 years in public life.

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Cong. Rick Larsen confronts anger at a town hall meeting on healthcare

Posted Mon, Aug 10, 6 a.m.

The hostility is out there, but so are the supporters for reform. Larsen appeals to 'Northwestern civility' in one crowded session in Skagit County.

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Other media

Gail Collins: The breast brouhaha Another example of medical backtracking, and of Republicans pouncing on another opportunity to scare us about medical insurance reform.

Biotech stocks are hot once again on Wall Street. Uh-oh. Share prices are rising but earnings are still very risky and bankruptcies are up.

Kathleen Parker: A little calm, please, on the mammogram furor To be sure, there's confusion over the new breast cancer screening recommendations but the founder of the Susan Komen Race for the Cure organization sees an upside to the controversy.

Top medical schools, including UW, quizzed on ghostwritten research articles Iowa Sen. Grassley is concerned about articles, often written by outside writers sometimes paid by drug companies, that are signed by medical school professors.

Paul Allen diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma The Seahawks and Trail Blazers owner and co-founder of Microsoft had another form of lymphoma in the 1980s. The news on the latest cancer recurrence was released to the employees of Vulcan, Allen's investment company.

Blog posts

Island Girl: A tribute to Sandra Day O'Connor

Posted Thu, Nov 12, 6 a.m.

The death Wednesday of the former justice's husband, after suffering for 20 years with Alzheimer's, brings to mind for our columnist personal stories of family, health, and love.

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Island Girl: 'This Is It,' every day

Posted Tue, Nov 3, 4 p.m.

An argument to see Michael Jackson's movie, and to remember that there's not always next year.

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Barkeep: Another 'moderate' round, please!

Posted Sun, Oct 18, 3:09 p.m.

Health experts say that "moderate" drinking is practically no drinking at all, but that's not what they show on Mad Men. Nor would it sustain the Northwest economy.

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A witch's brew of political scares in Congress

Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.

From Afghanistan to health care to ethics, lawmakers head toward Halloween with distractions aplenty.

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David Brooks in Yakima: 'I'm in favor of death panels'

Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6 a.m.

The conservative columnist declines to chide a conservative audience.

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Obama's speech: So long, public option

Posted Thu, Sep 10, 7:46 a.m.

The speech played well with the public, but it probably raised too many alarms among the factions in Congress.

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Obama signals a big hedge on the 'public option'

Posted Tue, Sep 8, 11:26 a.m.

A pre-mortem on Obama's crucial speech to Congress on Wednesday.

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Healthcare reform without risk

Posted Mon, Aug 31, 2:27 p.m.

Economists have an answer for why Americans are skittish about change, and it could help Obama's sales pitch.

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Frank Chopp's advice for Obama

Posted Tue, Aug 18, 11:46 p.m.

Some lessons in branding health care reform from Washington's Speaker of the House. Apples, anyone?

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Ash for clunkers

Posted Mon, Aug 17, 9:36 p.m.

Selling the virtues of cremation in a recession: cheap, green, and liberating.

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