In the Media
"A firefighter's lungs burn as he huddles under a makeshift firestorm shelter. An Indian woman's back aches as she beats her clothes against a rock. A cyclist's legs grow weary on the way to work.
Such struggles were solved Tuesday by the nation's keenest young tinkerers at America's largest manufacturing trade show in Los Angeles."
"Most state lawmakers stayed away from the Capitol on Tuesday as a House-Senate dispute over taxes remained stuck in a political ditch.
Top House and Senate negotiators were in Olympia to bring ideas for ending the impasse over how to raise $800 million in new revenue – without the temporary sales tax increase that the Senate has suggested. But no one publicly offered new ideas, and most rank-and-file lawmakers won’t be coming to Olympia today, either."
"The son of a single mom from Federal Way, Matt Jarrell says he may never have made it through Western Washington University without the money he received from Pell Grants.
Virgilio Clinton of Olympia, like Jarrell a senior at WWU, says he has lots of friends who wouldn't have been in college except for the grants, which provide more than $260 million in financial aid to nearly 100,000 students in Washington state."
"An Oregon deputy superintendent and a Colorado interim superintendent are the two finalists in the Bellingham School District's search for a new superintendent.
Gregory Baker, deputy superintendent of the Portland Public Schools in Oregon, and Steven Herzog, interim superintendent of the Douglas County School District in Castle Rock, Colo., were named finalists by the Bellingham School Board on Tuesday, March 23."
"Leif Whittaker has always known that walking in his father's shoes would be a difficult chore.
But here he goes, at age 25, leaving Port Townsend this week to climb Mount Everest.
In 1963 Jim Whittaker, at age 34, became the first American to summit the world's tallest peak. Now, it's his younger son's first try at the mountain."
"In the 25-plus years I’ve written about technology, I’ve interviewed fewer than 50 female Microsoft employees (by my rough estimate). In part, this is because there are less of them. Microsoft officials say women comprise 25 percent of the company’s total workforce. It’s also because many of the women who do work at Microsoft are in marketing, sales and support roles and aren’t among those who are 'authorized' to talk to us press/blogger types."
"That’s the Ambassadors, by the way, of Western Washington University, in the US city of Bellingham – though the photograph on the right might easily lead you to a different conclusion.
A group of seven young performers from this state-funded academy are in Oxfordshire this week on what has become an annual visit to Sophie’s Barn, a performance space commemorating Sophie Large, killed aged 19 in a road accident, at her parents’ home in Chacombe. Their Northwest Shorts were presented to a full house there last night, and will be given again tonight at The Mill in Banbury."
"Many Tuff-N-Uff events have been titled “The Future Stars of MMA,” but Friday’s card promises to live up to the hype more than any other promotion.
The event, at 7 p.m. at The Orleans, features Ryan Couture’s (5-1) last amateur bout, when he takes on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu prodigy Sean Bollinger (1-0) for the vacant 155-pound Tuff-N-Uff championship."
"Shooting the third-lowest round of the final day, Western Washington University moved up two spots to finish fifth among 16 teams at the Notre Dame de Namur University Argonaut Men's Golf Invitational Tournament which concluded Tuesday, March 23, in Livermore, Calif.
The Vikings, ranked No. 10 in the latest Golf World/NIKE Golf/Golf Coaches Association of America NCAA Division II Top 25, shot 291 for a 54-hole total of 22-over par 886."
"In fall 2003, Western Washington University (WWU) began to explore opportunities to purchase foods locally by partnering with Bellwood Acres Apples. Located in the same county, Bellwood affords WWU the opportunity to sell apples and fresh pressed apple cider during apple season from early fall through early winter."