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...dark, rainy night last spring, a young woman brought an offering to the rural Oregon movie set of Twilight. "She gave her infant to a vampire," director Catherine Hardwicke marvels. Actually, the Twilighter - as the mostly female devotees of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances call themselves - had driven hours to get pictures of her baby with the cast. Even before Twilight hits theaters Nov. 21, the series' readers have exhibited enough excitement - if not hysteria - to persuade the studio, Summit Entertainment, to get screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg cracking on adaptations of the next two books. (Read TIME's 10 Questions with...
...Oregon abolished tenure and replaced it with 2-year renewable contracts and a rehabilitation program for underachieving instructors. Other states like Connecticut, New York and Michigan have simply eliminated the word "tenure" (from the Latin tenere, meaning to hold or keep) from the books while retaining the due-process rights it embodies. In Toledo, Ohio, officials have adopted a more creative approach by establishing a mentoring program to improve teacher performance. Fifteen surrounding communities have already copied the idea...
First, the makeup of the Senate needs to be determined. That could drag out. As of now, the Democrats have 56 seats. A 57th is possible if Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkeley's apparent slim victory of a few thousand votes holds up against any procedural challenge incumbent Gordon Smith throws against him. And the Democrats could conceivably pick up more. Republican Saxby Chambliss, though he won a plurality of votes on Tuesday, faces a runoff in Georgia on Dec. 2. In Minnesota, the recount of the nearly tied Senate race will go into December at least, to determine whether...
...against the "Death with Dignity" act in the days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine prescribed by a physician...
...Minnesota and Oregon Senators: The Chameleons The two most important seats that were up for grabs were the Senate battles in Minnesota and Oregon, where Republicans Norm Coleman and Gordon Smith tried to run away from Bush just six years after running on his coattails. Though the Oregon race has been called in favor of Democrat Jeff Merkley, it says something about the endurance of the GOP that both of these races were so close. Obama won double-digit victories in both states, and Coleman and Smith are both milquetoast pols who did much less than McCain ever...