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...means the law is finally catching up to what some physicians have been quietly doing all along. In a survey of Oregon doctors published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this year, 60% said they should be able to help some terminal patients die, and 7% admitted to having done so. The actual number, say ethicists, may be much higher...
...even bother to name IBM's Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman, the scientists who were the program's authors. Artificial intelligence's other technical leaders were similarly ignored. When machines do think, it will be the scientists, not the showmen, who deserve the credit. MATTHEW GINSBERG Eugene, Oregon...
...dress she'd made of credit cards because she was broke. Resourcefuness like that quickly garnered her offers for big-budget films. "America rolled out the red carpet for me," says Gardiner. "I'm very grateful." Nevertheless, this year, while her dress was attending a fund-raiser in Portland, Oregon, Gardiner watched the Oscar ceremony from her home in Bondi, Australia. Why did she go back? Seeing a stuntwoman she'd just been talking to decapitated on a set didn't help. Ultimately, though, her reasons were patriotic. "I want to see the film industry progress here," she says. "Even...
...plant, which Intel says will create 3,000 jobs. The exemption formed the bulk of a 30-year, $566 million incentive package from New Mexico that works out to nearly $190,000 per job. (New Mexico's unemployment rate stands at 6.3%, compared with 7.6% for California.) Oregon used property-tax abatements to help land two more Intel facilities--a $735 million plant expansion in Aloha and a new $2.2 billion microchip factory in Hillsboro...
Actually, the Crimson didn't even give up a run again. The first sacrificial lamb was George Fox, a school in Oregon that Harvard beat 5-0. Then it was Chico State, 11-0, and in the consolation finals Harvard defeated Cal-State San Bernardino, 8-0, punctuated by a homer from junior third baseman Katina Lee that invoked the eight-run "mercy rule...