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		<title>Copetas agreement reached</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jameson Hawn
Former Director of Admissions at Western, Karen Copetas, came to a termination agreement with Western officials following a legal battle beginning in 2011 when formal complaints regarding hiring practices and retaliation were filed.
A joint press release from Copetas and Western on March 21 stated that Ms. Copetas did not intentionally violate any statues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bellingham Police extinguish medical marijuana co-ops</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Samantha Wohlfeil
Bellingham Police have shut down Northern Cross, KGB and The Joint – three medical marijuana cooperatives in Bellingham. Thursday, March 15, the police served search warrants on suspicion that there was illegal distribution and manufacture of marijuana at all three locations, according to a Bellingham Police press release.
Five people were arrested and booked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meningococcal pneumonia case isolated, rare incident</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kati Slater-Szirom
Western’s community should not be alarmed about the recent meningococcal pneumonia case, just be aware of it.
On Sunday, March 11, Western staff sent an email alerting students about a student who was infected with the disease.
Emily Gibson, Western’s Student Health Center director, said about two dozen concerned students came into the health center, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks to introduce new home brewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lauren Stelling
Starbucks is making a single-cup at home brewing machine called the Verismo, according to The Washington Post.
Starbucks currently has two types of at-home coffee: the Via Ready Brew instant coffee and K-Cups, which are compatible with the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Keurig machines.  Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, emphasized in a webcast that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western alumna takes new position at Agape Home for Women and Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Wehmann
Western alumna Bridget Reeves is now the women’s ministries manager at the Agape Home for Women and Children, according to an article in the Bellingham Herald.
The shelter is affiliated with the Lighthouse Mission Ministries in Bellingham.
Reeves, 23, told the Herald that she feels fortunate to have found her passion early in her college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy rally draws few, emphasizes importance of education funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Gore
A modest crowd of about 20 gathered in Red Square on Friday, March 2 for an Occupy Bellingham rally and march. Students spoke about the proposed state budget, and voiced their concerns about legislative affairs.
The event, which was organized by the Socialist Alternative campus club, wrapped up with a march through the campus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The economy is rough for young adults, study shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Aitchison
Young adults (ages 18-34) are having the toughest time in today’s economy, according to a new study by the Pew Research Institute.
The survey also found that young adults represented a demographic that was very optimistic for their futures.
Nearly nine of ten young adults surveyed said they earn enough money now to lead the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manning enters no plea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Josh Holloway
Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is accused of giving thousands of documents to WikiLeaks, was formally charged on Feb. 23, according to an article from The Baltimore Sun. 
Manning chose to defer making a decision on if he wants the case to go before a single military judge, a panel of officers or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New plans submitted for coal terminal in Longview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Lerman
Millennium Bulk Terminals has proposed a coal terminal in Longview that would ship 44 tons of coal to Asia every year and would cost $600 million, according to the Associated Press. 
The company withdrew plans for a smaller terminal last year, and now plans on using the former Reynolds Metals aluminum site for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old G-P plant demolished</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Wehmann
An eyesore of a building on the Bellingham waterfront was knocked down on Tuesday, Feb. 14 and Wednesday, Feb. 15, according to an article in the Bellingham Herald.
The building was the largest structure left and was home to the old Georgia-Pacific Corp. bleach plant.  Demolition is still being done on the pulp mill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amanda Knox agrees to book deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Lerman
Seattle native Amanda Knox, the University of Washington exchange student who was acquitted on murder charges late last year, has finally agreed to tell her story, according to an Associated Press article in the Seattle Times.
Yes, Knox has made the decision to write a book.
She will tell all the complicated details of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t try to sell government property that you were accidentally given</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dylan Koutsky
One Bellingham man never saw that headline.
On Feb. 10, Leif Rankin, 32, was sentenced to a year in prison for trying to sell a map of all of the surveillance cameras and sensors at the U.S.-Canada border in Blaine, according to the Bellingham Herald.
A friend of Rankin found the map, along with other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Drunk on Tweets: Study finds Twitter more addictive than alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dylan Koutsky
I’m not sure how many people at Western Tweet. If you do, this might be interesting to you. If you don’t, this will probably just solidify your decision.
A new study from the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School determined that Twitter is more addictive than alcohol or cigarettes, according to an article in The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen to keep funding breast exams at Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced today they will no longer be pulling funding for breast exams from Planned Parenthood, according to an Associated Press article.
Earlier this week, the Komen foundation had announced it would stop funding breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinic because of criteria that stopped them from donating to organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine shipped to UN mailroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dylan Koutsky
More than 35 pounds of cocaine showed up at the United Nations mailroom in New York City on Jan. 16. The New York Police Department was called in and seized the drugs, according to CNN.
The drugs were shipped to the New York UN headquarters from an unknown address in Mexico City through Cincinnati, [...]]]></description>
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