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What You Can and Can't Bring on a Plane

A seven-inch screwdriver? Sure. A snow globe? Not so fast

The Christmas Day incident on Detroit-bound Northwest flight 253 has led to a predictable—and predictably disjointed—security crackdown. To help you keep track of

Coconut Wireless

Loyal Bushies in the Honolulu First Circuit and Maui Pineapple Production Resurrected

Reports of pineapple's demise on Maui were, if not greatly exaggerated, at least premature. From the ashes of Maui Land & Pineapple's defunct agricultural arm rises

Rob Report

Julia Butterfly Hill

Ten years after her historic tree-sit, she still puts the 'active' in 'activism'

Each year, billions of North American monarch butterflies undertake a remarkable journey to spend the winter in central Mexico's high mountains, carpeting treetops in gold. Some estimates place the colonies' density as high as

Spin Cycle

Glass Ceilings at Outback Steakhouse

September 28, 2006 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files suit against Florida-based OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse (which operates seven restaurants in Hawaii), alleging

By the Numbers

Maui Salvation Army Reports Record Haul While Delta Swallows Northwest

$157,900: Amount the Maui Salvation Army raised with its holiday "red kettle" program, exceeding last year's record total by

News of the Weird

Deadly Games in Afghanistan and Botched Fast-Food Robberies

PIRATES AND THE STOCK MARKET: A NATURAL FIT... In Somalia, which is without a central government to speak of and where very little functions beyond an Islamic resistance and individual warlords' fiefdoms, a robust

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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