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"Why Does Getting Married Make You Fat?..." 7 Jan 2010 | 02:44 pm
Nicholas Bakalar reports: Study Says Women With Mate Get Heavier. The Australian study found that: After adjusting for other variables, the 10-year weight gain for an average 140-pound woman was 20 po...
"Capturing Cape Cod History" 5 Jan 2010 | 03:25 pm
Since 2002, writers associated with the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth have been publishing short essays on Cape Cod history, and especially Yarmouth history, in the mid-Cape paper, The Register. ...
How to buy presents for a girl 23 Dec 2009 | 07:57 am
Megan McArdle explains: Two Shopping Days Until Christmas. Who knew perfume was so complicated?
"Santa Claus's Trade Infractions" 18 Dec 2009 | 10:51 am
Patrick Thomas and Tom Barry point out that Santa's Polar operations may violate international trade law: Santa Claus’s Trade Infractions. Oliver Griffiths explains why many of the presents Santa deli...
Was Alaska Worth It? 8 Dec 2009 | 02:56 pm
Mounties marching in Juneau, Alaska. Alaska might have been Canadian if Seward hadn't acted. Did we get our money's worth when we bought Alaska from the Russians? It only cost $7.2 million in 1867, bu...
We need more foreign physicians 6 Dec 2009 | 08:31 am
Dean Baker makes the case: The Post's Protectionism Strongs Again: It Never Heard of Foreign Doctors
The New Device 5 Dec 2009 | 02:11 pm
A new Christmas classic from The Onion: New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable. I certainly want one.
Why we need more foreign nurses 27 Nov 2009 | 05:10 am
President Obama is opposed to liberalizing restrictions on entry of foreign nurses (White House Forum on Health Reform). He made the comment in response to a question at a health reform event at the W...
Yup'ik conservation 22 Nov 2009 | 03:10 pm
Nancy Hooper, 5th Grade Tununak School Ms. Boonstra's class, second place entry in Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sport Fish Regs Cover Art Contest, 2001. Tununak is a small town on Nelson Island....
Alaska's gold production is up 10 Nov 2009 | 01:18 pm
Elizabeth Bluemink reports: Alaskan Gold production highest since 1916 (Anchorage Daily News, November 8, 2009). Fort Knox mine. Source: Kinross Gold Corporation. In summary: Alaska produced about 800...
