Archive for 2011 January
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Friends of the Paper Sara and Joe “Love Richard Preston’s TEDTalk about Giant Trees” — So Do We
“[At] thirty-eight stories tall.. let’s just say these trees would stand out in downtown Manhattan… [It's estimated] they’re as old as the Parthenon,” says Richard Preston in a February 2008 TEDTalk (along with some
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Thai PC Air Recruits Ladyboys as Stewardesses
Pretty sure Hawai'i has been ahead of the curve, having spocked a mahu or two serving up POG on inter-island flights. But I digress... A newly launched Thai airline has hired six transsexuals to their flight attendant crew in what they felt is an effort to promote an equal opportunity agenda for what they consider the “third sex”...
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Online Extra: Kula Kid’s Tarot Card Reading
I had a lot of fun appreciating archetypes with this week's column, and was surprised by how easy it is to read meaning into the cards and their positions. Here are the notes from my tarot card reading at the Psychedelic Emporium with Suzy Q -- and if you're a regular reader, or know me personally, you might have fun reading into-it what you will, too. [Sci-fi music swells...] If you'd like to try it out for yourself, you can see Suzy at her Paia shop at...
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Lucky We Live Hawaii – Ten Dirtiest European Hotels Exposed
I once spent a day touring the Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club with the head of their housekeeping department, learning the ins and outs of their thankless job. She told me horror stories of children’s
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Eh Brah! Clarification
We understand that this week’s Eh Brah! has caused quite a stir. As with every Eh Brah! we don’t necessarily condone or agree with the writer’s words, so we never feel the need to
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E-Cigarettes: Better than the Real Thing?
There’s no way we could pass the topic of smoking for our Mind, Body, and Spirit issue. But don’t fret, this won’t be a finger pointing, holier-than-thou lecture about the harmful effects of cigarettes
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Kula Kid #32: “And The Devil Makes Three”
Don’t furrow your brow like that,” Nana always lovingly chides, 50 years my senior and somehow looking better for it. “The creases will stay put.” Sure enough, she’s right—and written with the wrinkles across my forehead is the word “skeptic.” Vanity notwithstanding, it’s a badge I wear proudly (hopefully offset by the heart I wear on my sleeve). But reading this column will likely browbeat an undeserved wrinkle upon poor, pentecostal Nana. Because...
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Your Horoscope For the Week of January 27
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The thing about “experts” is that once they achieve that status many of them rarely, if ever, question themselves. Thus their expertise can quickly fall out of date. Don’t fall into
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Justice Delayed Or Justice Denied For Maui’s Alvin Jardine?
“It’s a steep climb anywhere in the country, but in Hawaii it’s particularly steep.” That’s attorney Brook Hart of the Hawaii Innocence Project (HIP), discussing the plight of Alvin Jardine, a Maui resident who
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By the Numbers: Hawaii Patents and Maui Spy Sentences
6 Consecutive months that Hawaii’s unemployment rate has remained at 6.4 percent 27 Months since the national unemployment rate was as low as 6.4 percent 119 Number of patents issued to Hawaii residents in 2010, a 26 percent
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