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Maui's Vanishing 'Awapuhi

Aggressive harvesting threatens to wash away the 'shampoo flower'

Scouring the damp, steeply banked hills, my hiking companions are light-footed rock hoppers, deftly navigating the large, slippery streamside stones. I on the other hand stumble about, overly cautious of themore
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Coconut Wireless

An interesting thing about the ag inspector layoffs is that, while they're being sold by Gov. Lingle as a belt-tightening measure, they may end up costing the state far more than the $3.8 million they save. That argument is convincingly made in amore
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Plugs & Slugs

[Slug] To Hawaiian Airlines for sticking it to passengers. At a time when many airlines are hemorrhaging money, Hawaiian managed to turn profits of $23.5 million and $27.5 million in themore
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Rob Report

Beach Cleanups, Canoe Race, Maui Marathon and GMO Taro Ban Offer Hope

Need examples of how to get moving? Look around

Any way you look at it, the concept of inertia is tricky. When things are in motion, they invariably are kept in check by other forces, notably gravity and friction. In the big world around us, government red tape, corporate interests and more
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Spin Cycle

Truly adv. A superfluous word, often added to bolster a dubious or controversial statement. Usage: "Duke Aiona's role as Lt. Governor is unprecedented in the history of more
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photo: Richard Drdul.

By the Numbers

16.2 percent Portion of Hawaii workers who carpool to their jobs, the highest in the nation more
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News of the Weird

If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario, who set up mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks asmore
Overheard this week
“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10
Maui TIME
“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”

-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941
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