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...Rogue river valley, Grants Pass offers white-water rafting and blue-ribbon fly-fishing as well as hiking, biking, golfing and skiing in the nearby Siskiyou Mountains. Shielded from the Pacific by mountains, Grants Pass has little of the rain or fog that afflicts much of the Northwest...
Airbus has been successful in the past few years selling its smaller airplanes to U.S. carriers such as JetBlue, Northwest and United. It has even signed a contract to sell FedEx 10 of the cargo versions of the A380, which list for $230 million a copy. And Airbus is determined to maintain that momentum. Last year the company hired a telegenic industry veteran to make its case: Allan McArtor, who has served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam, an airline CEO and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration. McArtor briefs lawmakers and airline execs about the 120,000 employees...
...demographics have shifted the balance of power. The deciding votes are now in the west--in Tacoma, Seattle, Bellevue--while the bulk of public lands affected by the west's environmental enthusiasms lie east of the mountains, which are the Northwest's cultural wall, its Mason-Dixon line. To apple farmers six hours east of Seattle, it was the "damned environmentalists" of the Clinton Administration who brought down on their heads something that felt to the locals like an economic Waco. Orchards had prospered because of irrigation made possible by Columbia's dams. After several species of salmon were...
...Pledge of Allegiance before the words under God were inserted into it. We did not know anything was missing. Even without God, it was a Norman Rockwell scene: little white boys and girls with their hands over their hearts, facing a flag in the corner of a classroom in northwest Washington, D.C., struggling with the tough five syllables of "indivisible," while children across the racial divide in all-black schools in northeast and southwest Washington ghettos recited the same patriotic words to begin the school day. The black children grasped the details of the affirmation as little as we white...
...firefighters wading into the flaming U.S. forests last week, the news stayed nasty. Even as some of the biggest wildfires were brought under control, more than two dozen blazes still raged across nearly a million acres in eight western states. Meanwhile six more states in the heartland and Pacific Northwest were placed on fire alert, and stubborn drought and searing heat threatened to turn the East flammable...