| Snow piling up in the moutnains
A spate of recent winter storms has yielded a bumper crop of snow for Western Washington mountains. The Cascades, including the areas around Snoqualmie Pass, White Pass and Mount Rainier, have almost double the snow than is typical for this time of year, the National Weather Service said Saturday. A few figures: - Snoqualmie Pass had 130 inches of snow on the ground, the weather service reported, compared to an average of 79 inches. - White Pass was setting records. It had 110 inches of snow depth, compared to an average of 52 inches. - And at Mount Rainier, Paradise reported 169 inches of snow, compared to an average of 132 inches. The mountain lowlands have been seeing more snow, too. The weather service reported about 67 inches of snow at Longmire, near the entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.
Every School Every Thursday -- Johnston
First place, Becky Cooper, Johnston High.
Middle School Flight-Balsa wood gliders: First place, Matt Ruebbelke, Johnston Middle; second place, John Koopah, Summit Middle.
Technology Quiz Bowl-Middle School: First place, Johnston Middle, Keo Corak, Kofi Manteaw, Matt Ruebbelke; Technology Quiz Bowl-High School: Second place, Johnston, Mike Traxel, Cody Catron and Alex Stanbrough; third place, Johnston, Kate Dickey, Trevor Haden and Rachel Stanley.
Structural Engineering-Middle School: First place, Johnston Middle, Matt Ruebbelke and Kofi Manteaw; second place, Johnston Middle, Melinda Thomas and Vicki Lee Thomas.
Structural Engineering-High School: First place, Johnston, Becky Cooper and Linda Brown.
Middle School-Dragster Challenge: First place, Jordan Hansen, Summit Middle; second place, Jarid Ingrebrand, Summit Middle; third place, Zea Zhu, Summit Middle.
Study: For women, heart risks fade but new cancers arise
That heart trouble associated with hormones may not be permanent is good news for millions of women who quit taking them after the government study was halted six years ago because of heart risks and breast cancer. But the new risks for other cancers, particularly lung tumors, in women who had taken estrogen-progestin pills for about five years puzzled the researchers and outside experts. Those risks "were completely unanticipated," said Dr. Gerardo Heiss of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, lead author of the follow-up analysis. The analysis focused on participants' health in the first two to three years after the study's end. During that time, those who'd taken hormones but stopped were 24 percent more likely to develop any kind of cancer than women who'd taken dummy pills during the study.
fighting words
Indeed, Osama is suddenly so guilty and so all-powerful that any other discussion of any other topic is a dangerous "distraction" from the fight against him. I believe that I understand the convenience of this late conversion. Recruiters in Michigan
Fahrenheit 9/11 makes the following points about Bin Laden and about Afghanistan, and makes them in this order: 1) The Bin Laden family (if not exactly Osama himself) had a close if convoluted business relationship with the Bush family, through the Carlyle Group. 2) Saudi capital in general is a very large element of foreign investment in the United States. 3) The Unocal company in Texas had been willing to discuss a gas pipeline across Afghanistan with the Taliban, as had other vested interests.
Cougar in photos hails from West
About 160 scoutmasters within the Derby-based Housatonic Council of the Boy Scouts of America recently received e-mail copies of photos of the mountain lion, which was apparently photographed five years ago outside someone's home in Wyoming. State Department of Environmental Protection officials and staff members of the Connecticut Audubon Society also received copies. "I'm not sure what the distribution net was, but it's way out there," said Dale May, director of the DEP's wildlife division. "I've had people from the DEP who called me who got it at home and they wanted to know if it's true." May said it's the third mountain-lion fraud in recent months. The last trick featured a photo of a hunter holding up a dead cougar in New York state, but it was actually snapped five years earlier in Washington state, May said.
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