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Will the congressman yield the floor? And a pillow? When about 30 Democrats in the U.S. House staged a sit-in to demand a vote on gun control legislation, Republicans responded by turning off C-SPAN’s cameras.

For those regular C-SPAN viewers who wondered what 30 Democrats sitting around and doing nothing looks like, it’s about the same as when all 435 members of the House are in session and doing nothing.

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Keep clam: Residents above a Thurston County beach are objecting to a large-scale geoduck farm on Zangle Cove, saying the beach is more appropriate for recreation than for raising the well-endowed mollusks (Page B1).

Well, and who can blame men in swimsuits for feeling a little inferior when lying next to a geoduck?

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1960, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved Enovid as the first oral contraceptive for sale in the U.S. (Today in History, Page D6).

Enovid was actually the second, however, if you count the two aspirin that follow “Not tonight, honey; I’ve got a headache.”

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