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Make Your Own Shoes At Maui Shoe Academy In Wailuku

February 22, 2012 | 11:03 AM
by Jen Russo
Standing next to a giant belt sander that's putting the finishing touches on the soles, I'm really impressed that I just constructed my own pair of shoes. I'm finishing up a class at Maui Shoe Academy in Wailuku and will soon go home with an amazing work of completely wearable art. more
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Coconut Wireless

Hawaii Legislature Rejects Zipline Inspections While Maui Playwright Wayne Moniz Writes New Book

February 22, 2012 | 11:01 AM
by Anthony Pignataro
STATE INSPECTORS TIRED OF INSPECTING NEW THINGS So it looks like Hawaii won't be regulating ziplining any time soon. On Feb. 7, the state House Economic Revitalization and Business (ERB) Committee voted to defer HB-2060, a bill that would have established "standards and regulations" for zipline companies and "canopy tour operators" throughout the state.more
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News of the Weird

Sri Lankan Eye Donations And Wannabe Jedi Crimes

February 22, 2012 | 10:56 AM
by Chuck Shepherd
EYE-CATCHING NEWS Sri Lanka has, as an "unwritten symbol of pride and culture," the world's highest per-capita rate for eye-donation, according to a January Associated Press dispatch from Colombo. Underpinning this national purpose is the country's Buddhist tradition that celebrates afterlives. "He's dead," said a relative of an eye recipient about the donor, "but he's still alive. His eye can still see the world." Doctors even report instances in which Sri Lankans consider giving up an eyeball while still alive, as a measure of virtue. A new state-of-the-art clinic, funded by Singaporean donors, is expected to nearly double Sri Lanka's eyeball exports.more
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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