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The Phantom Tollbooth, a children's adventure novel by Norton Juster published in 1961, is loved to this day by children and adults alike. While it's easy to see why children connect to young Milo's tale, it also doesn't take much pondering to see why many adults still
Concert Alert
We list major concerts in the Seattle-Tacoma area going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE FRIDAY
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Derailed, like many things, by snowmaggedon 2012, the opening reception for South Puget Sound Community College's Wish You Were Here postcard exhibit has been rescheduled for Friday. As Volcano arts critic Alec Clayton noted in his review of the show, "There are a lot of artist-made postcards in
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Screwing something for profit gets a negative connotation when taken in its most basic form, but - if you think about it - it's also the American way. Or at least the American Capitalist way. Friday at Orca Books in Olympia, local author and television producer Elaine Smitha will delve into her
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We'll be frank. Apocalypse-like events usually only happen once. If an apocalypse-like event ever returns, it's either really bad news, or a sign that things weren't that apocalyptic in the first place. The good news about the Treefish Studio-produced Tacomapocalypse II, set to inhabit Amocat Café during the month of
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It's 25 degrees, 10 with the wind chill. You've lost control of your car and have landed in an embankment just off of the Nisqually. While you get your bearings and wonder if your arm is broken, a tone sounds at Joint Base Lewis- McChord. JBLM firefighters spring
Education
Servicemembers entering the civilian workforce are sharing in the nation's current economic slump. The U.S. Department of Labor reported in 2010 an 11.5 percent unemployment rate for those who'd served in the military any time after September 2001. With the Army expecting to downsize by approximately 80,000
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Before the Oakland Raiders took to the field at the Rose Bowl Jan. 9, 1977, head coach John Madden shared some words. "If you lose the Super Bowl nobody remembers you. They only remember the winner." That's how defensive end/tackle Otis Sistrunk remembers the National Football League's Super Bowl XI
Military Life
For 13 1/2 years, Sgt. 1st Class Darrell Rowe has served in the Army. And during that time he has never seen anything like Joint Base Lewis-McChord's newest addition: the Warrior Zone. "If I was a single Soldier this would be the place to be," he said. "It's money
Military Resources
Sam and his older brother, Spc. Tom Brandon, a Soldier with 17th Fires Brigade, rode together in the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Better Opportunities for Single Servicemembers van the evening of Jan. 27. Whether it was barracks-to-barracks, trips to the Express, or getting fellow troops home from a
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(446th AW PA) - Evacuating troops critically injured overseas and providing them with acute care may be first things that come to mind when aeromedical evacuation missions are mentioned. But, AE missions don't end when patients are taken out of harm's way. In fact, some may consider what comes next
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AFNS) - The former commander of the 4th Airlift Squadron at McChord Field, is one of four Servicemembers to have been accepted into the 15-member 2011-2012 class of White House Fellows. Lt. Col. Rodney Lewis, a C-17A Globemaster III pilot, began his fellowship in August 2011 when he
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SOUTHWEST ASIA - Senior Airman Jonathan Fabis, a loadmaster with the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, recently deployed to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia from the 7th Airlift Squadron out of McChord Field. Fabis, a native of Washington D.C., deployed to the 817th EAS, a C-17 Globemaster III flying squadron and
