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Hawaii Hoaxes

From menehune to big cats to underwater tunnels, the Aloha State has a long history of tricks and legends

March 31, 2010 | 04:30 PM
by Anuhea Yagi
To be fooled is human, to fool is divine. Our earliest fables and parables prove our love of—and susceptibility to—trickery, and while such lore often looks to impart wisdom, the deceptive high jinks at its heart speak to our more
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Coconut Wireless

Chicken Fighting and Prince Kuhio Tweets

March 31, 2010 | 04:18 PM
by Jacob Shafer
Ah, chicken fighting. No other issue combines so many hot buttons—cultural sensitivity, gambling, law enforcement, animal cruelty—and also features, well, chickens fighting. The fowl sport (sorry) is back in the news because of HCR277, a resolution co-introduced bymore
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Spin Cycle

DHS Streamlines

March 31, 2010 | 05:09 PM
by Jacob Shafer
"As part of a continuing effort to improve the efficiency of state services and better serve its clients, the State Department of Human Services (DHS)... is proceeding with a plan to..."more
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By the Numbers

Kmart And Airport Bonds Pay

March 31, 2010 | 05:03 PM
by Jacob Shafer
2,000 percent: Amount by which the tax on a barrel of imported oil would increase—from 5 cents to $1.05—undermore
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News of the Weird

Pampered Pooches and Swedish Politicians in Drag

March 31, 2010 | 04:44 PM
by Chuck Shepherd
A February St. Petersburg Times report found several local people who regularly cook gourmet meals for their dogs and who revealed their dogs' (or maybe just "their") favorite recipes. "Veggie Cookies for Dogs," for example, requiresmore
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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