Dr. Lee Hood (center left, in jacket) and members of his Institute for Systems Biology lab group celebrate with a made-in-Seattle toast after he learned he would receive the National Medal of Science.
The state's unemployment rate is still rising and jobs are still disappearing, though not as fast as in the past year. Here's a survey of Washington state's economy, which has shed 166,500 jobs since...
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