November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A8 Randy Barcus

November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A9 Cube speak The special diction and vocabulary of the modern office. An example is “prairie dogging;” that’s what happens in an office of workers when everyone pops up their heads …

November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A9 Blogging breaks may be gaining on coffee breaks in U.S. workplaces, a new analysis of online posting patterns suggests. In his Nov. 6 State of the Blogosphere report, Technorati founder …

November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A9 You know you’re dealing with a beta site when you keep typing questions into a chat box and the person on the other end has disappeared. That’s what happened when …

November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A9 By now many of us are familiar with phishing and Nigerian money scams, but those are not the only Internet schemes trying to deceive you to get at your cash. …

November 13, 2006 in Business on Page A9 PDF stands for portable document format, an increasingly popular type of file found on the Web. The popularity of PDFs stems from the ability to preserve the exact look and …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B1 Children learn all sorts of things from television. Take Nona Kaye Clark’s 5-year-old granddaughter, for instance.

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B1 The year 2031 may be 25 years away, but kids in living in Spokane today can write essays about what they think that year might be like, or a letter …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B1 Gee, the time gets away from you, doesn’t it? It seems like one day I helped my youngest daughter slip her Halloween costume over her head so she could trick-or-treat …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B2 Dear Heloise: You have mentioned a hint on how to clean hairbrushes and combs. It had to do with baking soda, I think. Can you please reprint this hint again? …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B2 Dear Annie: I am 36 and have been dating “Gary” off and on for two years. Most of the “off” times were because he wanted to date other women. I …

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November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B3 ‘I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground,” is the opening line of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Dirge without Music.” I have …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B3 NEW YORK – We start this holiday season as truly connected people. A decade ago, it might have been hard for busy people to stay in touch with friends and …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B4 What does it take to write a good mystery novel? Is it difficult to think like a murderer? Does it take its toll on one’s mental health? Or does it …

November 13, 2006 in Features on Page B5 Dear Miss Manners: I have begun to notice that the definition of the word “fiance(e)” is changing and, in my opinion, not for the better. When I was growing up, …

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November 13, 2006 in Sports on Page C1 Aside from the medical condition of starting quarterback Joel Clark, there wasn’t much suspense surrounding Sunday morning’s informal gathering of the Whitworth College Pirates, who met in the school’s Scotford …

November 13, 2006 in Sports on Page C1 MILWAUKEE – The only rookie mistake that Cougars coach Tony Bennett made over the weekend was that he didn’t bring three suits to the round-robin John Thompson Classic. “Don’t have …