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COLUMN: DNA testing: The perils of peering into your genes

I know where I came from, biologically speaking, but what if my DNA disagreed? What if everything I…

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COLUMN: Graffiti and litter: the twin plague of public spaces

I can’t decide whether litterbugs or the purveyors of graffiti annoy me more. Both groups of miscreants sully…

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How worried should you be about omicron BA.5?

The ways we think about the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved with the virus: In 2020, it was a…

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COLUMN: When a wandering bear brings neighbors together

The words “bear” and “golf course” clang in the ears when crammed into the same sentence. The combination…

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COLUMN: Pondering the electrified future of car-buying

I wonder how long it will take to train myself to plug in a car when I’m done…

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COLUMN: Verbal warning has desired effect on my driving

I watched in my rear-view mirror as the steel gray Oregon State Police car pulled a U-turn on…

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Book reveals a man’s love for a mountain

If Mount Adams were a Beatle it would be Ringo. Despite being the third tallest of the great…

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COLUMN: A curiously damp drive through an arid land

This spring has been so soggy it even defied one of the world’s great rain shadows. On one…

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COLUMN: The eternal mystery of history’s infamous crimes

I was listening to a podcast host describe in gruesome detail Jack the Ripper’s various eviscerations, as a…

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COLUMN: Widening the focus on school shooting scourge

The compulsion to try to explain disasters such as the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas,…

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