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7:39 am
Fri March 15, 2013

Washington Teens Continue To Struggle With Mental Health Issues

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Every two years Washington state surveys public schools students about their health and health behaviors. The response are voluntary and anonymous. Policymakers use the information to make decisions about which health issues to focus on and fund.
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Fewer teens are smoking and drinking alcohol. That’s one of the bright spots from a recent survey of youth in Washington state. But the results also show that a large number of them are struggling with mental health issues.

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Greens Disappointed
7:16 am
Fri March 15, 2013

US Blames Shell For Mishaps, Remains Committed To Arctic Drilling

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The Kulluk drill rig arriving in Dutch Harbor, in western Alaska, on Mar. 5. From there, it will be loaded on a heavy-lift ship and hauled to a dry dock in Asia.
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Shell plans to haul its two disabled Arctic rigs to Asia for repairs on "heavy-lift" ships like the Blue Marlin, shown carrying an oil rig.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had some tough words for Shell Oil Thursday as he announced the results of an investigation into Shell's Alaskan accidents in 2012. But he did not announce the tough consequences that environmentalists were hoping for in the wake of Shell’s year of Arctic mishaps.

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CPR Training
12:09 pm
Thu March 14, 2013

If You Want To Survive A Heart Attack, Live In Seattle

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Tim Benningfield and Lanise Taunton Rigby work to revive a CPR training mannequin under the watchful eyes of Seattle EMTs.
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Seattle has long been known as the best place to have a heart attack – if you want to live. Nationally, survival rates for heart attack hover between a chest clutching 2 percent and 25 percent.

In King County, your likelihood of surviving the most serious cardiac rhythm disturbance, known as ventricular fibrillation, is as high as 56 percent.

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Guitar Making During Wartime
11:37 am
Thu March 14, 2013

Rosie The Riveter Had A Sister, Laura The Luthier

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Originally published on Thu March 14, 2013 1:40 pm


PORTLAND - During World War II, a popular song called "Rosie the Riveter" turned female assembly workers into icons. Women filled in at places like the Boeing airplane factory in Seattle and the Kaiser shipyards in Portland while the men went off to war.


But one famous guitar company allegedly tried to hide the fact that it was using female replacements to keep making its musical instruments. Now, seven decades later, a Portland guitarist is helping to tell that story.

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Pope Conclave Update
11:14 am
Wed March 13, 2013

White Smoke Rises: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio Will Be Next Pope

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Pope Francis as he waved to the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday.
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White smoke rises from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel meaning that cardinals elected a new pope on Wednesday, the second day of their secret conclave on at the Vatican.
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Originally published on Wed March 13, 2013 4:30 pm

The world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader, and for the first time is is someone from the Americas.

As afternoon turned to evening in Vatican City on Wednesday, a little after 7 p.m. local time, white smoke rose from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel and bells rang through St. Peter's Square — the traditional signals that the church's cardinals have chosen a new pope.

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