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Special to the Olympian: State Must Address Heroin Epidemic, Drug Crimes

Special to The Olympian: State must address heroin epidemic, drug crimes
This crisis didn't happen overnight, it happened on a line graph in plain sight of health officials. A 500 percent … Death threats, rampant heroin use and narcotic dealing at the Olympia Timberland Regional Library should have been the wake-up call …
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'Uncharted,' by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
Their enthusiastic, occasionally knotty new book, "Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture," tells the story of how Aiden and Michel built that "microscope" – an addictive online tool called the Google Ngram Viewer. … are among the most …
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Jeff Bezos and Russell Brand: 2 men you couldn't escape in 2013
The graph of online shopping is soaring upwards. For good or ill, we …. (In a sign of things to come, he was thrown out of the prestigious private Italia Conti theatrical school for drug abuse, his place having been funded by the ratepayers of Essex …
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