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Take a Hike
The Rogue Valley's Hike of the Week: White Rabbit
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New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest: dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
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Earliest American find detailed
Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
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Northwest cherry harvest down
Fresh cherry pie on the Fourth of July? Maybe not on the East Coast this year, and consumers can blame freezing spring temperatures in the Northwest.
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Gold digger's greed is obvious to all but fiance
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Sweet, but not sentimental
Sometimes there is a moment captured that perfectly sums up the past and foretells the future. It is just such a moment playwright Brian Friel captured in his 1992 Tony Award winning play, 'Dancing at Lughnasa.'
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Platypus genome revealed
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799, one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and spurs on its rear legs, he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax.
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Texas town makes Jenna Bush wedding plans
So you didn't get your invitation to Jenna Bush's wedding this weekend? No worries.
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Worrier can turn deaf ear to barrage of bad news
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'Fierce competitor, gentle spirit'
Junior Ashlanders: By Angela Howe-Decker
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75 students arrested in drug bust
Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.
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Fishermen suspected in sea lion slaying
Under a 1972 federal law, certain species of sea lion cannot be harmed. But the Columbia River region is big enough, and parts of it are wild and isolated enough, to hide many sins.
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Higher costs, changing attitudes rain on local parades
Net Summary
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Grandma's term not appropriate for girl
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'Five Centuries of Choral Music'
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Mandolin prodigy's talent belies her age
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Late cold snap puts a chill on California vineyards
April was a cruel month for California winemakers, bringing a series of unusually late frosts to vineyards baring the tender, green shoots of spring.
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Yawns: new breed of rich and young but frugal
They are a new breed of Gen Xers and Ys, Young and Wealthy but Normal, or Yawns.
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Humor is defense against rude remarks
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The O-Zone
By Orville Hector
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Making a smarter electric grid could be the key to saving power
These days the environmental consequences and unfriendly economics of energy appear unsustainable. As a result, power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter.
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Couple dissed for opting out of family plot
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Jigsaw sculpture
Ashland artist Nelson Davis will be featured on the television program Oregon Art Beat next week.
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Cruise unsure about couch-jumping
Tom Cruise says his couch-jumping on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' seemed to set off a 'confluence' of bad publicity for him, but he's not sure he would take it back.
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Civil War relic kills Virginia collector
Sam White, 53, was one of thousands of hobbyists who comb former battlegrounds for artifacts using metal detectors, pickaxes, shovels and trowels.
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Woman's driving fear ends engagement
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