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The Slice archive for Sept. 12, 2011

MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 2011

Still time to salvage the season

So you didn't accomplish all you wanted to this summer. Welcome to the club. But don't despair. Between tonight's full moon and the official start of autumn on the 23rd, there are 10 whole days. A person in the right frame of mind can do…

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Who names that tune where you work? 

www.covershut.com I was across the street checking my box at the downtown post office when music coming from an area where postal employees work took me back to 1973. It was a song from an Allman Brothers album that several friends and I just about…

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Difference between movies and reality 

I asked Kim Papich, public information officer at the Spokane Regional Health District, what she thought was the most unrealistic aspect of the movie "Contagion." And after stressing that deadly contagious disease outbreaks can and do happen, she said the people in the movie were…

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Borrowing a line from an old Bible movie  

If you have been listening to someone complain for weeks and weeks about how it wasn't hot enough... ...and now that person is actually grousing that it is TOO hot... Well, The Slice recommends trotting out a certain line from an old movie. It doesn't…

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One sign you live in a jerkwater town 

Everyone you know believes mass transportation is a Commie conspiracy. That's seldom the case here in Spokane, of course. Right? Wednesday is STA Rider Appreciation Day. Sure it's an obvious PR move coming days before some service reductions. But a few early riders will receive…

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Can Elizabeth Bennet save the world?

www.bbc.uk For some of us, actress Jennifer Ehle will always be remembered for her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in that great 1995 British production of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." This is true even when she is playing a CDC scientist searching for a way…

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