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...most popular spot was the outdoor pool area, where smokers could light up. (Practically the only other place you can smoke in California these days is... Oregon.) Crammed dangerously close to the edge of the pool were trendsetters balancing plastic champagne flutes, polystyrene plates of Mexican food and cell phones (to find out if another party was hotter...
...That approach may, however, be losing steam, especially in states like Oregon and Colorado, where juvenile death rates have risen along with membership in anti-medical sects. State legislators are energetically sponsoring bills that would end the ban on prosecuting parents whose religion compels them to withhold medical treatment...
...Four years ago, Danny Kyllo was growing marijuana in his Oregon home, and he got busted - he admits that. But he's not crazy about how the cops found out. An Oregon National Guard soldier, using a thermal imaging device from outside Kyollo's house, noticed unusually high levels of heat coming from inside. The soldier tipped off the cops, the cops got a warrant, and Kyolo got arrested after police found dozens of marijuana plants growing in his attic. He was using halogen lamps to grow the stuff...
...divided Senate, not just from Democrats but from a key bloc of at least eight Republicans--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, James Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Gordon Smith of Oregon--who have the power to defeat the bill. (Only three Democratic Senators, Louisiana's John Breaux and Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka, both of Hawaii, have come out so far in favor of drilling in the refuge.) Murkowski promises to attract antidrilling Senators to his cause. What remains unclear...
...customers-first.org a new website to help passengers get information on exactly what to expect if problems should arise. The airline lobby also called on the Bush Administration to speed up modernization of the air-traffic-control system. But that volley might not be enough: Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, for example, stands ready to reintroduce legislation on the Hill that would require airlines to improve customer service or face sanctions. "We're not calling for a constitutional right to fluffy pillows," says Wyden. "But we do want timely and accurate information about what to expect from airlines...