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In "what I learned today" news: check out Pacific Northwest Magazine's article on the traveling plant collector and the Seattle Times article about why bigleaf maple is banned as a Seattle street tree.

Paul Krugman's For Richer (New York Times Magazine) is long but worthwhile. It argues that our country is returning to its state of the 1920s — one in which rich and poor, left and right are polarized, with little middle ground either politically or economically.