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Polls suggest that up to 75% of Americans back mercy killing, though most state efforts to make it legal have not succeeded. Voters in Oregon passed a Death with Dignity Act by a 60% majority last year, making it the only state to legalize assisted suicide. California and Washington defeated "aid in dying" referendums in the early 1990s. And Michigan rejected an assisted-suicide initiative this year by a landslide of 71% to 29%. (No state allows the sort of mercy killing that Kevorkian aired last week.) Courts have largely bowed out of the issue. In 1990 the Supreme Court...
Levitt liked to compare himself to General Motors. "We channel labor and materials to a stationary outdoor assembly line instead of bringing them together inside a factory." To keep down lumber costs, the Levitts bought their own forests and built a sawmill in Oregon. They purchased appliances direct from the manufacturer, cutting out the distributor's markup. They even made their own nails. Levitt's methods kept costs so low that in the first years the houses, which typically sat on a seventh-of-an-acre lot, could sell for just $7,990, a price that still allowed the Levitts...
RankTeam Record This Week 1. Tennessee 8-0-0 Beat Alabama-Birmingham 37-13 2. Kansas State 9-0-0 Beat Baylor 49-6 3. UCLA 8-0-0 Beat Oregon State 41-34 4. Florida 8-1-0 Beat Vanderbilt 45-13 5. Florida State 9-1-0 Beat No. 20 Virginia 45-14 6. Texas A&M 9-1-0 Beat Oklahoma 29-0 7. Ohio State 8-1-0 Lost to Michigan St, 28-24 8. Wisconsin 9-0-0 Beat Minnesota 26-7 9. Arizona 9-1-0 Beat Washington State 41-7 10. Arkansas...
...same hysteria flows when large, fast-growing high-tech companies start shopping around for new plant locations. Intel Corp. invited six Western states--Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah--to compete for a new computer-chip fabrication plant, or fab, and selected the winner in March 1993. A senior executive explained the decision this way to the San Jose Mercury News: "We're going to build where Intel gets the best deal...
...fear they are losing touch with a whole generation. "I can't get my 11-year-old son to sit down and watch a whole football game, and he's the target consumer they want," says Rick Burton, director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. "He'll watch the X Games longer than he'll watch football." Participation rates, which may indicate which sports people will watch, are booming for pursuits like snowboarding (up 33% in 1997 over 1996), skateboarding (up 22%) and fly fishing (up 6%), while they are noticeably soft for old standbys...