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...expansion, slavery, economic policy in the first industrial age. The nation outgrew the room, so when they assembled there shortly after 9:30 a.m., 100 Senators made do with 68 seats. Those not lucky enough to get antique seats were placed between the rows, so that tall Senators like Oregon's Gordon Smith sat with his knees pressed up against the chair in front of him. "It was like riding with two people in a wheelbarrow," said New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici...
...store, although politically affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist, Party, is financially independent, just like other affiliates in California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington State. O'Leary estimates that on a "good Saturday" the Harvard Square location attracts 40 to 50 people...
...course of routine prenatal care, and too often the message there is sugarcoated. "They talk about 'making your baby better' or 'having a better birth outcome' instead of talking about the fact that this is really a test about selective termination," says medical anthropologist Nancy Press of Oregon Health Sciences University. The failure to make explicit that message--and the decision it forces--says Press, "is simply, clearly, morally wrong...
...MAGIC FIRE In Peron's Argentina, a family of refugees from Hitler's Europe is jolted into a realization that history may be repeating itself. Lillian Garrett-Groag's play, staged at Washington's Kennedy Center by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, combines warm family comedy and savvy political melodrama with rare skill...
Bonnie Phillips has been called an eco-nazi. Twice, logging trucks in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...