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Lost to beauty standards in 140 LBS

caption: Artist Susan Lieu's mother passed away after a botched plastic surgery procedure. Her show about the experience is called "140 Pounds."
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Artist Susan Lieu's mother passed away after a botched plastic surgery procedure. Her show about the experience is called "140 Pounds."
Courtesy Susan Lieu.

There’s a show premiering this Friday at Bumbershoot. It’s the true story of a 38-year-old woman who went in for cosmetic surgery and didn’t survive. The artist, Susan Lieu, wrote the piece about her mother.


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The leader of Western State Hospital has a new CEO today. David Holt, interim leader of the troubled facility who’s now been made permanent, has a lot of cleanup on his hands.

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This winter you can expect an El Niño year… maybe. With climate forecasting, it can be unwise to expect anything specific at all. But that doesn’t stop everyone from water managers to insurance companies from closely studying those models, says meteorologist Rhonda Lee.

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Scientists have been trying to save the young orca whale known as J50 since early August. One method to help do so is a dart full of antibiotics. And Martin Haulena, a veterinarian with the Vancouver Aquarium, fired that dart.

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