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Maui CountyThe great garbage swirlA patch of plastic twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific. Maui's Rich Owen wants to clean it up.The horse latitudes are known for dead wind. They lie between the 30th and 35th latitudinal parallels, across the globe, above and below the equator. Their name supposedly comes from the days when Spanish merchant ships, bound for the West Indies, would practically screech to a halt upon crossing the area’s threshold and, to lighten their load and conserve water, would push overboard the horses they had brought along. |
Coconut WirelessWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
This is what we’re in for, folks. The Obama presidency is barely 24 hours old and already the Fox News team is salivating over the fact that he’s “not really president” because he said the word “faithfully” at the wrong moment or something. |
Rob ReportWatchdog MillionaireMaui's environmental stewards need a lifeline. What will be the final answer?Cue the music. Get your phone-a-friend on standby. The clock is ticking, and Maui’s precious environment and quality of life are at stake!
For $1,000, which eco-organization had its origins in the State Park at Makena efforts in the 1980s?
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LC WatchYou're all invited!Rip-roaringly fun as they are, it had never really occurred to me that members of the public would want to attend LC meetings unless they had some immediate stake in one of the cases being heard. |
'Click' of the weekAmid all the pomp and circumstance of the Inauguration, there was one cathartic moment that slipped through the cracks. If you missed it, it's worth watching: Six-and-a-half minutes of commentary-free footage of Cheney and Bush exiting the Capitol on a fittingly cold, windswept January day. |
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| “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 |
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| “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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